The best the ruzzian trolls who once duped us into making trump our president can come up with nowadays is “amyyrykynz bad bycaz zamzyng zamzyng gay/pronouns”
Edit: That’s a pretty flippant response to a complicated answer.
You could write a book about how West Virginia got into this mess. We’re a third world country right here in the United States. Most of our industry is owned by foreign (out of state) interests. We generate wealth and it gets shipped out with no benefit to the people who live here. Our natural resources alone should make us wealthy, but they are stolen from us and we are left sick and impoverished.
Then come the Republicans, with their rhetoric of “gubbmint interference” and these brain-damaged idiots lap it up. We elect a Democrat governor who then switches parties to support Trump. How do we react? We fucking reelect him.
I’ll tell you what, I’ll you a universe inside a multiverse that is essentially unreachable and for all intensive purposes could be treated as a universe where the multiverse is false, are we good?
If you’re interested in another album based around this concept, “I Didn’t Mean To Haunt You” by Quadeca is a really good one written from the perspective of a ghost.
Funny thing, fear is a heavily biological phenomenon, to keep your body safe from harm. It’s very chemical-based. If you have a soul of some sort, it would lack a lot of the mechanisms like adrenaline and cortisol that we normally associate with the sensation of fear.
It would have no real reason to be afraid of anything. What are you going to hurt, its feelings?
But all emotions are chemical processes in our brain, and vision is a product of our eyes, and hearing is from our ears, etc. So if a make believe ghost can experience those other things, why not fear as well?
Most of those are far more undiscernable than fear. Fear is very simplistic, and people are very familiar with its component pieces if they consider it at any length.
Most other emotions are more indescribable, and harder to explain mechanistically. People are familiar with what adrenaline, and sometimes cortisol feel like though, specifically. So it’s easier to pin those down into bodily processes and leave the rest to a belief in a soul, if one wishes.
Basically, until a specific mechanism for something is pinned down, and communicated in a way that people can understand, it can be filled in with various forms of magic if one wishes. This is just personal preference and freedom of religion. Fear is easy, it’s a simple, fairly barebones emotion. Is love easy though?
I feel like we could get deep into the weeds about emotions, but I do enjoy your version of “ghosts can’t feel some emotions because they lack a body”. I think it could have some annoying side effect extrapolations like “ghosts don’t have eyes or ears or anything, so I guess they’re trapped in a sensationless nothingness” but since ghosts are made up, you could just say “they can see because of magic” and clear it up. Anyways, ghosts are a fun idea, and I’m glad people keep imagining up interesting versions of them.
Well, from a strictly scientific standpoint, there is no sound evidence for ghosts. This is religion, not science. With a little bit of science thrown in for fun, like seasoning some food with salt. But make no mistake, religion, not science.
If you try to only stick to scientifically confirmed ideas, the entire thing falls apart. But you were aware that a very large percentage, perhaps a sound majority of the planet even, prefers faith-based systems to evidence-based systems, yes? Science is a tool that other people employ for their benefit, but to them, the world is a matter of faith.
This is why it amuses me to hybridize the two in ways that people can understand experientially.
As I already expressed, the accessibility of the idea is important to the hypothetical landing in the first place. We do not fully understand how image processing in the brain happens. This is inaccessible information currently. We do know how adrenaline functions, this is accessible to people, even those without academic training, due to it entering common language as an “adrenaline rush”.
I feel like this is kind of just arbitrarily picking and choosing again. We do not fully understand how emotional processing happens either, and the mechanics behind it are arguably more complex to the layperson than vision is. There are different types of adrenaline rushes (excitement, fear, athletic focus, etc.) and most people don’t know how noradrenaline and other chemicals influence your emotional state, whereas I’d argue that far more people understand the basic mechanics of sight (rods and cones) and when getting blinded by light there is only one potential sensation.
If you want to have fun with the idea of what fictional/fantastical ghosts do or do not experience, that is completely okay, but you don’t need to try and make some justification or explanation as to why it is that particular way and not any other way or why that way makes more sense than any others.
In my head, I can also kind of see how it could make sense that if ghosts existed then there’d likely be certain emotional stimuli that they’d be missing, But that’s just in my head with my reasoning, doesn’t mean that it has to objectively make more sense than anything else or that that’s how it would be if they actually existed.
Well of course its arbitrary. I just picked it because it was used in the meme that we are talking about. I could’ve also used physical pain or sexual desire or hunger. It just has to be something that people have experiential experience with. Sight possibly could’ve worked, but I don’t think so. Maybe for you?
Also, I’m not sure there actually are different kinds of adrenaline rushes. Regarding my explanation, I was asked, so I provided it. Just because you do not like it does not make it bad. My point stands. People “get” fear pretty easily, if they want. People cannot “get” sight, without the aid of science training. It’s a key difference between the two, which makes picking one over the other pretty easy.
No, it definitely does not make objectively more sense, that is 100% true. Subjectively, and maybe, only. Subjectively is what’s important though. Only a fairly smallish percentage of humans care about trying to be objective most of the time. Most just don’t bother. So unless you are a student (where we have to keep your options open) or adult working in some sort of technical field, you can actually dispense with it.
This is one of the big reasons why our world is so fucked up, as a side note.
I Google stuff in my dreams all the time and it legible. But then when I submit the query it wakes me up because my brain is all like “dude you are the computer simulating this entire dream world you ain’t connected to the internet. Googling is just asking yourself the same question again”. That kind of breaks the immersion
It’s notable that a major part of the drop happened before chatgpt was even released. Lots of good explanations here already for why that might be.
My personal anecdote is that it’s almost useless in relation to modern react (ts&functional). New questions aren’t being answered and old ones were answered with react& js or even jquery.
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