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Human are an advanced bio mech suit for bacteria. Human cells - 37 trillion (majority red blood cells). Bacteria in the human body - 38 trillion.
There is a non-zero chance that the human consciousness is the product of bacteria forming a mesh neural network that hijacks the human brain’s voluntary functions. It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics (I get severe depression).
Just playing with ideas.
Here’s my out-there take on consciousness:
Picture a surface of incredibly high but stable energies, like the one on a pulsar. Now imagine that those energies manage to shake a fundamental consciousness field hard enough at a large enough scale, that virtual consciousness and anti-consciousness pairs constantly bubble in and out of existence.
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Redwoods are algae???
“Pterodactyls are fish” seems disingenuous to insert when two of the previous ones are about pedantic taxonomy facts (which are true). “Fish” are paraphyletic and thus not an actual taxon, but as a practical group, it’s all non-tetrapod vertebrates – and order Pterosauria are decidedly tetrapods.
It’s trying to be pedantic in a cheeky way but just ends up being wrong.
Edit: Just so I balance this out, though, anyone wanting to be humorously pedantic about aquatic taxonomy should check out WoRMS (the World Register of Marine Species). They’ve always been, to me, the most up-to-date source on the taxonomy of marine, freshwater, and brackish biota short of reading the actual scientific literature.
I find pedants are often wrong or completely missing the point.
Sometimes it triggers a fun discussion. and sometimes it’s just tedious.
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ghoticould never be pronounced like “fish” because “gh” only sounds like an F near the end of a word afterauorou, but ghoti is at least an interesting way to bring up the topic of weird inconsistencies of the english language, even if it’s wrong)My favorite way to slap an English speaker in the face with the silly irregularities of English pronunciation is to show them the 1920 poem The Chaos.
For those like me that never even tried to pronounce english correctly and consequently can’t grasp the actual “chaos” hidden in that poem: The chaos (YT)
Humans share a common ancestor with tardigrades.
Almost everything is a worm. Not just in heredity, but also in form. You are a worm that uses long mineral deposits and muscles to stand erect and move around in an erect position for some reason. Weirdest worm.
Hoxers unite!
You can go to the endgame directly: every and all living organisms share a common ancestor.
every and all living organisms [that we know of]
Humans are full virus
Careful you don’t get banned for being an eco fascist. 🫣
Bill Hicks was right, “We’re a virus with shoes.”
Aren’t whales related to cows?
Yes but not that closely. The Artiodactyla (order) tree goes like this:
Below the iceberg: “Not all dogs have bones”
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a dinosaur.
It’s homologous with a human’s middle finger. That doesn’t make it a middle finger.
