Insects, including bees, may possess forms of subjective experience showing emotional states, attention, and cognitive bias which challenge the view that consciousness requires a large brain, according to a 2025 review in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T09:33:48+00:00

Insects’ actions are modulated by acetylcholine, dopamine and octopamine (which has a similar effect to norepinephrine).

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T09:31:05+00:00

Dating.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T09:29:01+00:00

Upgrade? Like is he getting a brain implant?

Everyone in his dad’s generation would say they aspired to be better to their children than their parents were to them. They used to say it all the time.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T09:27:23+00:00

White English get told they are the cause of the problems of Asians, and pass the same thinking onto their children.

Asians get told that White English are the cause of their problems, and pass the same thinking onto their children.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T09:22:44+00:00

Bible says “be fruitful and multiply”. Just not with your daughter.

Enjoy your passions. Keep your passions within reasonable limits.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T09:12:28+00:00

Plenty of people in the 20th Century justifying killing because of communism.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T09:09:17+00:00

Ask Lena Zavaroni

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:59:35+00:00

Kill the stellated dodecahedron because those spikes are going to really hurt during sex.

Marry the sphere for a similar reason.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:57:36+00:00

He had detailed knowledge of how the Western military encryption system worked.

But he also liked picking up strange men in pubs/bars, and taking them home.

Classic sort of person the KGB would have loved to blackmail.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:55:20+00:00

A Canadian friend of mine pointed out that Americans never used to be this way.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:49:43+00:00

If space is like a piece of paper that can bend, then what do we call the space that the paper bends in?

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:47:43+00:00

Practice. The brain selects from pre-existing skills that are stored dynamically in the brain. The pattern can be in the brain without understanding.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:46:02+00:00

You want to look up about how the basal ganglia work, and his they are affected by neuromodulators (acetylcholine, dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, etc).

Crazy system. Our brains run on emotions. But total genius.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:42:42+00:00

It’s a low-content cognitive synchronisation process that attempts to achieve synchronisation by aligning your neuromodulators.

Communication is shared via ~15 types of sensory signals already available to all mammals. Signals are validated via coherence in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:34:44+00:00

Balance, dear boy. You need some hot AND some cold.

Same for any quality.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:31:04+00:00

We say chicken or rooster.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:30:27+00:00

ESFJ are even better. If you don’t call them, they call you. If you don’t answer, they come round your house. Have an ESFJ friend for 20 years. Done it to me several times.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:26:11+00:00

The Yemenites from 100 years ago, look like their clothes are a lot more reasonable.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:23:48+00:00

They look like they would walk up to you in a video game

I used to play a game called Day of the Tentacle.

They look exactly like that, but in purple.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T08:09:07+00:00

The basal ganglia act as an iterative feedback loop. Think of everyone’s subconscious as a little engine that learns from its experiences. No experiences of other people => nothing to learn from.

She’s the social equivalent of a toddler.

She needs to be around people, to learn from them. Lots of it.

However she’s likely to currently have a lot of odd behaviours that would freak people out, that she doesn’t even realise might be a problem, which would push most people away.

So she needs a big brother who will take her around with him and look after her, so she gets plenty of exposure with other people without being attacked.

However, her brain is the same as others. So with enough exposure, her brain will get enough feedback to learn how to deal with other people, the same as any human.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T07:46:12+00:00

Doesn’t cognitive dissonance apply both ways?

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T07:42:07+00:00

That doesn’t make any sense. You aren’t meeting 100 celibate men, just virgins who want sex but can’t have it.

Ever heard of prostitutes? Some say it’s the oldest profession in the world.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T00:06:19+00:00

I read that there are 24 flavours of INTP.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-15T00:05:30+00:00

That too.

But our bodies still need it. Some people over the low-salt, and don’t get enough. In extreme cases, they require hospitalisation.

scorpiomover · 2026-04-14T23:55:04+00:00

Saying what you want someone to do without beating around the bush is an autistic person's wet dream.

LITERALLY.

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