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It is just a guess, but the zombie snails and their multiple-host-species lifecycle may have inspired some of Upstream Color, where the parasite migrates from human to pig to orchid and back....
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Barry commented on
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My best wishes go with you....
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Trottelreiner commented on
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As any reader of Peter Watt's Blindsight[1] knows, we can't know how somebody feels, all we can do is imagine how we would feel in his situation. For most extant members[2] of our species it's ingrained into those parts of their brains that do the job that haughty frontal cortex can't be bothered with, like not shitting your pants or breathing, while for some of us it's more of an intellectual task. The accuracy is somewhat all over the field, with both approaches[3]. Having said that, when I first heard the news, I thought I could imagine your pain somewhat,...
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Trottelreiner commented on
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[1] Thanks for recommending it in some thread some time ago. [2] We don't know how it was for Neanderthals. Or Denisovans. Or any of that extinct branches of the hominid family bush we only know from some bones or quirks in some extant population genetics in Africa. [3] I'm still not sure if some people are even more impaired in their social cognition than me or just not that used to doing an intellectual emulation and otherwise more normal. I'm on my yearly family holiday, why are you asking? [4] Sometime after UCon in June I realized I don't...
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Scott Sanford commented on
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As a belated footnote, don't fret if it takes a while to regain your equilibrium. We never 'get over' these things...but we learn to live with them. This Saturday I visited my father's grave, the first opportunity I'd had to do that since the funeral two years ago. Oh, the feels....
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Trottelreiner commented on
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On an even more belated footnote, I just celebrated my 40th birthday with a trip to the planetarium with my parents, which might seem somewhat unrelated, but the intervening weeks since my last post were, err, quite interesting. So me having tears in my eyes (again) when they mentioned "Pale Blue Dot" and Carl Sagan in the end might mean a lot of things, maybe it's just me coming off the SSRI after 12 years (at some point my psychiatrist thought I was getting hypomanic, I'm still not sure if he was right), maybe it's memories of young Trottelreiner programming...
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