Dude, I'm a neuroscientist. If you want to talk brains, we can talk brains. I'll tell you this much though, we have virtually no idea how conscious experience relates to the brain. We know ways in which it relates to sensation and action, but consciousness seems to be this pesky nuisance parameter which defies any explanation based in the physical world.

The alternative to jumping to reductionist conclusions is to withhold belief until you are supported by evidence. You know, not doing that thing you malign religious people for doing.

>> ^hpqp:

You mean, apart from everything we know about how the brain works? And that our experience of consciousness is a function of that organ?
Moreover, what is the alternative, an immortal "soul"?
>> ^bmacs27:
>> ^hpqp:
Uh, yeah, it's the same as your "conscious experience" before you existed.
>> ^bmacs27:
So, do you guys hold any opinion on what happens to your conscious experience after death?


You should listen to Admiral Ackbar more often.
What evidence do you have for that opinion?

You mean, apart from everything we know about how the brain works? And that our experience of consciousness is a function of that organ?

Moreover, what is the alternative, an immortal "soul"?

>> ^bmacs27:

>> ^hpqp:
Uh, yeah, it's the same as your "conscious experience" before you existed.
>> ^bmacs27:
So, do you guys hold any opinion on what happens to your conscious experience after death?


You should listen to Admiral Ackbar more often.
What evidence do you have for that opinion?

>> ^hpqp:

Uh, yeah, it's the same as your "conscious experience" before you existed.
>> ^bmacs27:
So, do you guys hold any opinion on what happens to your conscious experience after death?



You should listen to Admiral Ackbar more often.

What evidence do you have for that opinion?

>> ^gwiz665:
Admiral Ackbar bodyslams Mon Mothma! She can't repel firepower of that magnitude!


IT'S A TRAP!

Admiral Ackbar bodyslams Mon Mothma! She can't repel firepower of that magnitude!

Colbert used the same Admiral Ackbar bit, but what can you do. It's the moment the meme came into being for, it seems.

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Damn, the writers from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report need to run things by each other. They both had the exact same sequence on the trap, including Admiral Ackbar.

>> ^rebuilder:
Kalle: I don't think it's the perspective as much as it is just the way they're executing a high-G turn with no effect on the people in the spaceship. Ends up looking like the rest of the universe is turning and the ship is staying still.



Yes but the Deathstar is rotating faster than the planet (sorry moon) behind it..
Shouldn't they rotate exactly the same way?

Great Sift. I think I remember the Inner Space ride at Disney World from when I was a wee lad.

The entrance into Star Tours in Disney World (with the big AT-AT) was breathtaking the first time I went into it back in 91! I still have pictures of me and Chewbaca. I loved it.

Just recently I got to ride the one at Disneyland, and the entrance is just a boring passage in the side of a building, and Admiral Ackbar's animatronic neck was wrenching in a weird way that almost look liked it was breaking off while turning.

que admiral ackbar

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The quiz has more traps than Admiral Ackbar could call out. "Iconochasms" was far more interesting.


Rougy, for the nonce you're a self-avowed Political CHUMP/ASS for your rude Godwin nap-disturbing commentary.

And your breath stinks of stale bananas and patchouli.

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It's Admiral Ackbar in disguise, I tell you!

Even has the fishy stare down pat.