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Valerie Fallera
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Valerie Fallera • upvoted 5 items 1 month ago
Men-Escaped-Manosphere
I just realized that everything I was saying and doing was because someone told me that’s what I should do, and as an insecure middle schooler I desperately wanted to fit in and once I realized I could be my own person I started realizing that helping others and being kind and considerate felt infinitely better and more rewarding that constantly trying to one up everyone and put others down to appear better in everyone’s eyes, because at the end of the day you can only be so great and there will always be people who hate on others so just be the best you you can be and that’s enoughMen-Escaped-Manosphere
I just realized that everything I was saying and doing was because someone told me that’s what I should do, and as an insecure middle schooler I desperately wanted to fit in and once I realized I could be my own person I started realizing that helping others and being kind and considerate felt infinitely better and more rewarding that constantly trying to one up everyone and put others down to appear better in everyone’s eyes, because at the end of the day you can only be so great and there will always be people who hate on others so just be the best you you can be and that’s enoughMen-Escaped-Manosphere
I was raised around men who held all the power in a cult-ish community, and women who paid the price for it in ways that were mostly invisible to the outside. What changed me wasn’t anger—it was seeing how normalized the harm was, and realizing I didn’t want to be okay with that anymore. Growing up, I was taught that this system was just ‘how things worked.’ But watching how women were treated—regardless of their choices—forced me to question what I’d been taught. Learning to push back meant unlearning a lot of silence.
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Valerie Fallera • upvoted 7 items 3 months ago
Hey Pandas, What If Consciousness Could Be Explained Physically?
We are a cognitive dance of waving starsturf looking back on itself so the cosmos can learn about itself. We are individuals built from multitudes with an illusory sense of self, giving us the impression of an I that can experience. We are experiencing it, but there is no I.
Hey Pandas, What If Consciousness Could Be Explained Physically?
You know, if we're all an interconnected consciousness, then that implies that we are in some way connected with the Tangerine Tantrum and all the other arsehats throughout history. Not sure I'm okay with that. 😉
Perhaps delving a little deeper: What IS consciousness anyway? We are made of inert lifeless molecules that formed protein chains that, though billions of years, managed to organise themselves into a "person". We are clearly alive, thinking, and you're reading and understanding this text through machines that people thought up and built. But, yet, there isn't a part of us that you can point to and say "that's where the life comes from". And we can only sort of wishy-washy point at parts of the brain and say "that's where thoughts come from" but we're not sure exactly how. There is, in terms of chemicals, very little difference between a living person and a newly not-living one. It's more a cessation of electrical activity. But what? And how? And how does that make consciousness?
I think there are far too many groundwork questions that need answers first.
Hey Pandas, What If Consciousness Could Be Explained Physically?
We are a cognitive dance of waving starsturf looking back on itself so the cosmos can learn about itself. We are individuals built from multitudes with an illusory sense of self, giving us the impression of an I that can experience. We are experiencing it, but there is no I.
Hey Pandas, What If Consciousness Could Be Explained Physically?
You know, if we're all an interconnected consciousness, then that implies that we are in some way connected with the Tangerine Tantrum and all the other arsehats throughout history. Not sure I'm okay with that. 😉
Perhaps delving a little deeper: What IS consciousness anyway? We are made of inert lifeless molecules that formed protein chains that, though billions of years, managed to organise themselves into a "person". We are clearly alive, thinking, and you're reading and understanding this text through machines that people thought up and built. But, yet, there isn't a part of us that you can point to and say "that's where the life comes from". And we can only sort of wishy-washy point at parts of the brain and say "that's where thoughts come from" but we're not sure exactly how. There is, in terms of chemicals, very little difference between a living person and a newly not-living one. It's more a cessation of electrical activity. But what? And how? And how does that make consciousness?
I think there are far too many groundwork questions that need answers first.
Hey Pandas, What If Consciousness Could Be Explained Physically?
This is an anology my son and I use regularly.
We find it makes it easier to explain to the unaware. Surprisingly, it still seems like an idea too many cannot grasp even with this simple example.
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When I realized that the richest man in the world has 14 kids and there's no Elon Musk wing at St.Jude children's cancer research center. Or, a Jeff Bezos wing either.
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Valerie Fallera • upvoted 5 items 1 month ago
Men-Escaped-Manosphere
I just realized that everything I was saying and doing was because someone told me that’s what I should do, and as an insecure middle schooler I desperately wanted to fit in and once I realized I could be my own person I started realizing that helping others and being kind and considerate felt infinitely better and more rewarding that constantly trying to one up everyone and put others down to appear better in everyone’s eyes, because at the end of the day you can only be so great and there will always be people who hate on others so just be the best you you can be and that’s enoughMen-Escaped-Manosphere
I was raised around men who held all the power in a cult-ish community, and women who paid the price for it in ways that were mostly invisible to the outside. What changed me wasn’t anger—it was seeing how normalized the harm was, and realizing I didn’t want to be okay with that anymore. Growing up, I was taught that this system was just ‘how things worked.’ But watching how women were treated—regardless of their choices—forced me to question what I’d been taught. Learning to push back meant unlearning a lot of silence. Valerie Fallera • upvoted 7 items 3 months ago
Hey Pandas, What If Consciousness Could Be Explained Physically?
This is an anology my son and I use regularly.
We find it makes it easier to explain to the unaware. Surprisingly, it still seems like an idea too many cannot grasp even with this simple example.
Hey Pandas, What If Consciousness Could Be Explained Physically?
You know, if we're all an interconnected consciousness, then that implies that we are in some way connected with the Tangerine Tantrum and all the other arsehats throughout history. Not sure I'm okay with that. 😉
Perhaps delving a little deeper: What IS consciousness anyway? We are made of inert lifeless molecules that formed protein chains that, though billions of years, managed to organise themselves into a "person". We are clearly alive, thinking, and you're reading and understanding this text through machines that people thought up and built. But, yet, there isn't a part of us that you can point to and say "that's where the life comes from". And we can only sort of wishy-washy point at parts of the brain and say "that's where thoughts come from" but we're not sure exactly how. There is, in terms of chemicals, very little difference between a living person and a newly not-living one. It's more a cessation of electrical activity. But what? And how? And how does that make consciousness?
I think there are far too many groundwork questions that need answers first.
Hey Pandas, What If Consciousness Could Be Explained Physically?
We are a cognitive dance of waving starsturf looking back on itself so the cosmos can learn about itself. We are individuals built from multitudes with an illusory sense of self, giving us the impression of an I that can experience. We are experiencing it, but there is no I.
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