Some cultures do not have the locus of self behind the eyeballs.

That thing we'd be scared of losing if we were taken apart and then put back together.

so does this mean if we transfer ourselfs to the web does that mean we leave a clone behind or not because we wouldnt know if they were still there because we would see only from technology and not the eyes we used to see through

Pretty sure that's really just how the eyes transfer data.

like a projector only in reverse

I think you're taking it too literally. s:

It's just the easiest way to latch onto what I'm talking about.

oh, well you seemed stuck on using that point

I could've made it about any of the senses.

all of which transfer the data to the brain

what are senses though, just electrical inputs to the brain

How does ANYTHING get to pilot muscles like this? And at what point does it start?

well youve seen cells right

cells do that too

we have cells in each other

we have a community

Uh, ya, we have a lot of that information already...you need to ask better questions.

For someone being so condescending about it, your answers are lacking.

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I am not a neurscientist.

the quetion is at what point does it end in a mess of cells hating each other

question*

I wouldn't give a shit if you were, y'know.

If a neuroscientist said your sentences to me, I'd be saying "Address your points, not yourself."

Then what's the point of your questions if the answer to them, don't interest you?

What's the goal?

They *do* interest me.

i feel like we are in a bigger community than we realize. like how cells can see fro ma limit we see from a limit too

from a*

we could be in a creature with its own goals

or nopt

And yet, they don't, because you are here talking to me instead of looking them up, so being here seems to matter more.

not*

https://youtu.be/Ci9jfMvoLb4?t=6s

<http://discovermagazine.com/2014/dec/22-i-marks-the-spot>

There have apparently been several variations of the experiment described, and most people put the location of self as being just behind the eyes but a 15-20% minority put it somewhere in the chest or abdomen.

Also this experiment: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_transfer_illusion> can be replicated for the location of self by using VR googles. <https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/04/14/the-invisible-hand-illusion/>

The point being that one's sense of self is not quite so ironclad as one might think. Easy way to demonstrate this is to do a fuckload of psychedelic drugs.

Would the experiment work with a fuckload of placebos?

Maybe. Doing placebos isn't much fun though.

Confirmed: Tim is Richard Spencer wearing a hat.