I seriously doubt that the amount of info I'm retaining is overloading the brain's storage capacity.
You're probably using a crappy compression algorithm.
Monty: Whaddya mean she ain't my wife? Mal: She ain't your wife... cause she's married to me.
'Trash'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2006 7:21:14 am PDT #7678 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2006 7:23:41 am PDT #7679 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Could they feel themselves thinking there?
Good question. I don't really remember.
I think that for non-blind humans, vision is such an important part of how we "see" ourselves in the world that it's almost inevitable that people would imagine themselves thinking behind their eyes.
megan walker - Jul 20, 2006 7:24:25 am PDT #7680 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Did anyone watch So You Think You Can Dance this week? I've just finished and was wondering if the people who didn't like Heidi before liked her better now--because I think she was loads better with Travis as her partner. As for who might be going, I'd vote for Martha (who I've never liked) and Ivan (who I like a lot, but I just don't think he can compete technically at this point).
Hayden - Jul 20, 2006 7:25:10 am PDT #7681 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I remember a friend talking about some wacky scientist or another who'd managed to move the centre of his consciousness into his navel. I'm still not sure I believe that's possible, but then again, I'm sense-bound. What if I were blind and deaf? Would I still be in my head?
That's not just the Greeks, but a tenet of Confucianism and early Taoism. Even in the West, the head didn't become the home of consciousness until the late Dark Ages. I can't remember the details, but this was part of a paper I wrote for a class on Theories of Consciousness back in the early 90s.
juliana - Jul 20, 2006 7:26:25 am PDT #7682 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Who's in the homunculus's head, then?
When a body meets a body comin' through the brain?
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2006 7:27:17 am PDT #7683 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That's not just the Greeks, but a tenet of Confucianism and early Taoism. Even in the West, the head didn't become the home of consciousness until the late Dark Ages.
That just seems really odd to me, but of course I'm a product of a "head-consciousness" culture, so....
Hayden - Jul 20, 2006 7:30:39 am PDT #7684 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That just seems really odd to me, but of course I'm a product of a "head-consciousness" culture, so....
I think I know what ita's talking about. I can recall stories about some scientist who was doing thought-experiments in the 70s by trying to get subjects to center their consciousness lower in their bodies.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2006 7:56:22 am PDT #7685 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tommy, have you seen this? It's kinda...weird.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 20, 2006 8:01:29 am PDT #7686 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think I know what ita's talking about. I can recall stories about some scientist who was doing thought-experiments in the 70s by trying to get subjects to center their consciousness lower in their bodies.
Haven't males been doing this....forever?
SuziQ - Jul 20, 2006 8:02:03 am PDT #7687 of 10002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
The sci-fi is making my brain hurt.
Megan - have not watched yet. Hopefully Tivo grabbed for me and I can watch eventually.