yogthos

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid

As told by all the mainstream western media buddy.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to programmerhumor in The joys of webdev

or check off disabling cache when the dev console is open

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Trust Index 2023 to 2024: Developing Countries Lead on Trust

https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/093/912/918/931/616/original/8b765745f3686ade.mp4

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to memes in Freedom and Democracy

The people who were collaborating with US against their country were trying to flee when US backed regime collapsed, news at 11!

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to science in Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, And They May Be as Smart as Gorillas

I never really understood why the default assumption is that consciousness is something unique to humans and we should default to assuming other animals are not conscious as opposed to the other way around.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to science in Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life

Here’s another article with more details, and you can’t compress brain cells by 90% rifters.com/real/articles/Science_No-Brain.pdf

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to science in Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, And They May Be as Smart as Gorillas

I very much agree.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to science in Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, And They May Be as Smart as Gorillas

I imagine it’s the combination of evolutionary pressures of being a scavenger and having to fly. Since crows tend to steal food from dangerous animals like wolves, they need to be able to react quickly and to be able to predict behavior of other animals. This selects for intelligence and a theory of mind. Meanwhile, flying means you have to keep things lean.

It’s also worth noting that the human brain has massive redundancy in it. For example, there was a case of a guy in France who was missing 90% of the brain due to an extreme case of hydrocephalus. He didn’t even realize there was anything wrong with him until he went to the doctor for some unrelated problem, only to be referred to a specialist because his head seemed a bit too large.

cbc.ca/…/scientists-research-man-missing-90-of-hi…

In light of that, crows having high levels of intelligence doesn’t seem that weird at all.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to science in Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, And They May Be as Smart as Gorillas

Right, if an animal passes the test that’s a strong indication of self awareness, but if it doesn’t then consciousness cannot be ruled out. I would imagine most animals are self aware at least on some level because being able to model oneself within your environment is a useful property. Any organism with a relatively sophisticated internal model would naturally have itself as part of its model.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to memes in Paper Tigers

Yeah, it’s obviously Reuters lying. 😂

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to memes in Paper Tigers

Welcome to the real world little buddy reuters.com/…/us-envoy-says-diplomatic-solution-y…

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour

well yeah because libs are just temporarily inconvenienced billionaires

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour

when you definitely understand what the word dictatorship means 😂

yogthos , 3 months ago to memes in Links and recommendations, please...

• The Hu
• Nine Treasures
• Ningen Isu

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Taiwan death toll rises and scores still missing after island's biggest earthquake in 25 years

Not as bad as Turkey, but still pretty rough.