Eruca's posts

@Chaos: That's unfortunate. Taken usernames are a fact of life, I suppose. Just like all those kids that put "I'm taken, don't ask!" on their social game profiles. lmao
Lucan's a cool name. Did your parents give it to you?

@Fuuchan: I can understand why you'd come to that conclusion given what you went through and I'm sympathetic to your cause.
If you follow the discussion between Glume and I further, you'll see that we're talking about a possible future (maybe even present) reality where robots are in fact Not less than people.

@nut: you're a tough nut to crack. pun intended.

@Glume: thanks for keepin the discussion going. As they say, we're all born naked and the rest is drag!

@Shark: I don't really like the tin wrapped ones they sell in a package at the dollar store, for one. They're grainy and way too sweet.

@Shark: ANY variety? wow you are not picky!!

@Glume: Sounds like drag. :P

@nyreen: You sound really busy!! Hope it all goes smoothly~

@Glume: What do you mean? You're not super theatrical.
Did I miss something?? lol

@Chaos: this might be a crazy suggestion.
If you're telling people in your signature that you're Luc anyway, why not just make your username Luc?

Chaos sounds p badass tho.

oh, what's your fav kind of chocolate?

oh my god. sounds like much more forethought than I ever possessed.

But isn't it summer now?? How long until you are released from the planning?

@Vii: Hey you're welcome to jump in with your 2 cents! Humans acting robot like: signs of declining humanity or human progress in tech? Or maybe the start of the robot uprising?

What's a brain in a jar theory? Is it like, Talking heads in Futurama? Or like, the Ghost in the Shell Major Motoko thing? Actually, I'm familiar with the ghost in the machine idea and decartes' dualism, sounds like the opposite of brain in a jar tho. xD

@Glume: Funny, that's not at all how I interpret that experiment. lmao And that's perfectly okay. It's interesting that you're so open to accepting ideas from a completely different belief system. I'd be really interested to understand how you figure out what evidence is legit and what's not. It's something I struggle with on a day to day basis about big and vague things like who I am and what internal experiences. Maybe we can have that chat somewhere else.

Okay, back to Quantum physics. I think an important detail to account for is that quantum refers to a particular scale - really fricken tiny. It doesn't (and can't) describe the properties of things at a bigger scale, like the scale we interact in. Here's an example, whenever we see an object, like a tree, we don't actually see the tree, we see the light that's reflected off the tree that just happens to enter our eyes. Trees don't just crazily change its position or form because a ray of light hit it. It's so much more massive than a photon that essentially, the light doesn't have any an effect on it and the rays that get bounced off and enters our eyes are approximately a veridical reflection of the tree (pun intended). But when what we're trying to see is So Small (like an electron), that a single ray of light has enough energy to change its speed and/or position, the ray of light that bounced off it and entered our eyes would have changed it, so what we see is not actually what it looks like anymore. So all our estimates at that tiny scale, i.e. the quantum scale, are limited in accuracy.

That's how I interpret the "observation changes what you're observing" idea. You can probably see why I'm confused about how that connects to the strength of the human will and such.

Wow, your friend sounds awesome. Why is she blowing up icebergs?

Well, Satan's certainly much more chill about who gets to hang out with him at his house than the guy upstairs. But then again, I'm not attached to that story.

@Godawful: u r welcome?
plz dont make me do that again.
idk how you do it.

@Shark: oatmeal raisin. :P maybe with chocolate on the side.