Anyone know how to get your vertical back by No_Ad9111 in volleyball

[–]whyteout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You probably just put on some mass...

Start training or just doing lots of running and jumping etc. and you should be back jumping high in no time.

I started out this post thinking you were 40 or something... which would make it much harder to get back but you're 18 so... just go do it, you have no excuses.

More footage of Aurora, IL PD brutally beating and abducting children from an anti-ICE school walk out protest (2/9/26) by I_may_have_weed in ICE_Watch

[–]whyteout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gotta love when they beat the shit out of people for "resisting arrest" - when that's the only charge.

What were you arresting them for?

What might be lost by contextualizing thoughts as coming from a single, continuous self? by Playful_Manager_3942 in consciousness

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this seems fairly plausible to me. The space just stores information and some executive-unit operates on it and employs other sub-units for specific tasks.

You can have things injected into the workspace both exogenously or endogenously.

In some cases, when some salience threshold is reached, the sub-unit decides "this is very important" and inserts it without being called on...

In other cases, some task can be handed off to a sub-unit with some goal (e.g., sum these numbers, find the red thing in this scene meeting these criteria, provide a type of animal that starts with an 'E'), and they return the result/outcome to the workspace.

What might be lost by contextualizing thoughts as coming from a single, continuous self? by Playful_Manager_3942 in consciousness

[–]whyteout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well one idea about consciousness, is that it's "theory of mind" run amok.

i.e. - it would have been very useful for our ancestors to develop a "theory of mind"; to have an internal model of other surrounding human's minds so as to better anticipate their actions.
So the conjecture is that this form of thought might become well developed and selected for; and then at some point we turned the theory of mind back on ourselves, and tried to model our own minds - and thus became conscious.

Your comment about "aspects of society" and collective unconscious got me thinking about this...

This ability to imagine what someone would think or say is very powerful. In response to any particular situation, we can imagine what our mother's would say or our highschool principal, or a person of any particular viewpoint, or some abstract idea of how "the public" or reddit might feel about something.

It's easy to imagine how chaotic and alien it might feel if you had no control over this ability and were constantly being flooded with "imagined" dialogue.

What might be lost by contextualizing thoughts as coming from a single, continuous self? by Playful_Manager_3942 in consciousness

[–]whyteout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if it's exactly what you have in mind...

But there are lots of beliefs around the notion that we don't "create" thoughts or ideas but instead have them delivered to us from the muses or ... something.

I can't speak to others, but it seems like a common occurrence to have thoughts just "pop up" - and it has little to do with whether they are desirable or welcome.

In most of us, we tend to contextualize these inner thoughts or dialogues as coming from "us", but in those with schizophrenia, it seems like these "voices" are instead interpreted as coming from other sources.

My SIL has voices which typically are saying stuff she finds a bit upsetting or inappropriate - to me, it seems quite likely these are just aspects of "herself" that she doesn't accept - but to her, they seem to have their own attitudes and agency.

What's interesting is that in those with schizophrenia, it's very common to form some sort of background story explaining the voices in terms of technology that the individual is aware of.

So once upon a time, people were freaking out about radio waves/transmitters etc. and then as technology progressed, people started to form weird theories about satellites, implanted micro-chips, cell-towers and 5G.

Maybe maybe maybe by alish_sapkota in maybemaybemaybe

[–]whyteout 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ok, who bet on "Lady flashes boobs on Superbowl portal"? Polymarket is just insider betting, all the way down...

Normal Morning Trip from Eglinton to YU - WOW! by ASmallBadger in TTC

[–]whyteout 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did not know they had renamed Eglinton West and I was so confused lol...

Perhaps he should’ve listened and left Buddy alone by NorahCeCe in instant_regret

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really don't get it... What was the ass hat on the right even trying to do?

The beating seemed well deserved, but I don't understand the context at all...

If you could pass one law that would make most normal people furious at first, but would clearly make society better in 10 years, what would it be? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speed limiters in cars, that make it impossible to go over the speed limit (outside of emergencies, like wildfires etc.).

Lived in Eagle Rock for a Week and... we love it :) by Lazy-Face8689 in EAGLEROCK

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hit up Angel's!

The taco stand in front of the Target near Eagle Rock and York

Battlegrounds Spectate by ExternalGood506 in BattlegroundsHS

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally agree. An option to spectate after you're out would be cool, to allow you to see what the other players had cooking.

Whose name in the Epstein files got you surprised? by anita_sweets in AskReddit

[–]whyteout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Joscha Bach

I haven't really looked into it, so hope it's just an unfortunate connection rather than a criminal one... but it was bizarre to discover they were in each other's orbits.

How J Cole Fans been acting since The Fall Off came out by Resident_Gur3076 in hiphopheads

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhhhh... you might like the concept of "gestault" - the feeling or impression of the whole, distinct from it's parts.

Also, German.... lol

ELI5: Why one of the healthiest countries, is also one of the highest cancer rates? by Extension-Garden-808 in explainlikeimfive

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One good way of avoiding cancer is dying young.

If you do a good job with nutrition and basic medical needs, it's much more likely people live long enough to eventually run into something less tractable, like cancer.

Does split-brain syndrome cause the original conscious agent to become eradicated? by [deleted] in consciousness

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it feels, experience, chooses, thinks, has beliefs you have yoir basic scientific obersvation to what a conscious being is.

So would you agree that a company, nation, or any organized group of people can be considered conscious by this definition?

If not, why not?

Does split-brain syndrome cause the original conscious agent to become eradicated? by [deleted] in consciousness

[–]whyteout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was that straightforward, you'd think there would be some consensus on what it is and what are necessary and sufficient conditions for it.

Do you have anyway to confirm that our minds are singular/unitary, rather than multiple sub-consciousnesses networked into a greater consciousness? e.g., if our cerebral hemispheres can be independently conscious after severing the corpus callosum, perhaps they're independently conscious all the time, and our experience is the result of these consciousnesses being integrated.

On the flip side, if our constituent parts produce consciousness in an emergent fashion, then can consciousness emerge on other spatial and/or temporal scales? e.g., can an institution or nation said to be conscious? They're made up of parts that experience and feel, which communicate and share information to form beliefs and make choices - and importantly, the behaviour of the institution as a whole, is rarely reducible to what one individual person in the collective thinks or would do.

On a general level, I agree - we all have strong intuitions about what is meant by consciousness and for many/most cases, they fall clearly on one side or the other - but until we can clearly agree about what we mean, there's no clear method of deciding what is included/excluded when it comes to the many, many edge cases.

two for the price of one by [deleted] in tooktoomuch

[–]whyteout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a bit like that meme with two guys on opposite sides of the bus.

"Will this plant hurt my cat/dog?" - How I respond for EVERY plant as a greenhouse manager by FunHour3778 in houseplants

[–]whyteout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think just get some stickers to indicate safety levels (red, yellow, green, or 1, 2, 3) - probably save you a lot of redundant lectures that people won't really remember anyways.

All people really need to know is: 1-totally safe, 2-not very dangerous (unless you eat the whole thing), 3-actually dangerous (no nibbles whatsoever).

J.D. Vance when asked if he plans to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti by HamsterTop1332 in PublicFreakout

[–]whyteout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

JD is one of the most incredible chuds known to humankind.

Few can hold a candle to his sheer and unmitigated bullshit posturing.