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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (4 children)

How do you know the context existed before you woke up this morning? It could have been replaced with something even stranger while you were asleep.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

If it’s truly a feline take: “I exist with unwavering confidence in the context of all which came before me. I resent you questioning the concept through which you question me.”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well well well, looks like we got one of them Church of Last Tuesday folks here...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me?! I'm in the Church of Last Thursday, thankyouverymuch. Those heretical Last Tuesdayists are going to face consequences for their lack of faith.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Apologies, I am but a mere subgenius and did not know any better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I exist within the context of Last Thursday. It's called Last Thursdayism.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not me, I'm sure that I just fell out of a coconut tree.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Me too (I have brain damage)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I never consented to this tho

[–] zarkanian 12 points 4 months ago

You should complain to the manager.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a round thing to contemplate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Like some sort of sphere upon which to speculate...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Your memories of this "context" could have been altered. Maybe this instance of reality just started (and as such there is no context)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Memories being given as an input to the system are themselves context

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So it doesn't matter if the past really is real, if you think they are real, they matter?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The act of inserting this context into the system is itself context, so I'm still existing in the context of what came before

If somebody tricks you and you fall for it, it doesn't mean what you were tricked into believing isn't context, or that the fact you were tricked at all isnt context.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah.. alright, I'm too drunk for this

[–] Dufurson 3 points 4 months ago

yep, just like ork tech

[–] BodilessGaze 4 points 4 months ago

That's basically the Boltzmann brain thought experiment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

[–] zarkanian 6 points 4 months ago

Based and coconut-pilled.

[–] kwomp2 3 points 4 months ago

So relatable