I’m sick and tired of the Capitalist religion and all their fanatic believers. The Western right-wing population are the most propagandized and harmful people on Earth.

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Cake day: June 8th, 2023
  • Sims@lemmy.mltoScience@lemmy.ml•What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels?
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    1 month ago

    Fascinating article. So life goes: seek energy to run the proton gradient, that drives all higher emerging functions in a hierarchy. I may have missed the method to pump protons out tho?

    Anyway, I think that ‘thinking’ and ‘reasoning’ are just evolved movement. We have sensors and actuators and an ever increasing complexity of signal moving from sensors to actuators through a processing layer that eventually turns into our cognition. For bacteria, there’s a real short way from signal to actuation, but in ginormous life such as us, we delay signals and process them over many layers of complexity, but all signals eventually maps to an action, a movement.

    The world model of a bacterium isn’t big and it likely doesn’t have complexity enough to shape a full spatial sense (only directional based on gradients - taxochemical reaction ?). More complex organisms creates internal representations of sensors/signals in a world model, and senses only those representations, so our core executive cognition never sees anything but highly abstract representations of real signals, never the direct signal itself. It does however accumulate in the cognitive structure and WILL map to 1 or more actions based on it later.

    Like the Author, I think this article creates better understanding of both living systems but also cognition in its simplest binary form - converge or diverge, safety vs exploration, go back or go forward - much like the simple pulsing behavior of slime molds.

  • Sims@lemmy.mltoInventing Reality@lemmy.ml•The Idea of the ‘Uyghur Genocide’ and the Realities of Xinjiang [Vijay Prashad & Tings Chak]
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    1 month ago

    You seem to have been spammed by the ‘bad china’ propaganda campaign. All bad stories about the enemies of the US, China, Russia, Iran etc, are being manufactured. The US Epstein class creates these stories to manufacture consent - anger - towards someone they want to attack and control. “Uighurs” and most other dramatic stories from any of these countries are either pure fantasy or exaggerated wildly to anger people in the West. US are currently running a war against first Russia, then Iran, all to try and control China’s rise, and manufactured anger & hate legitimizes the violent actions from the Epstein class against competitors in the world. These wars were planned many years ago through ‘both parties’ in the US, so they are permanent foreign policy despite who is president, or which administration is in charge.

    You don’t have to agree with those causes - you can make up your own mind when you see how these campaigns are run, and start to see the clear opinion altering effects on ordinary people following mainstream corporate information feeds. Propaganda - like marketing - works, but on an entire population.