Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though… you’ve considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn’t beating, your skin is pale… realizing you are in a coffin and everyone’s performing a service… hmm… guess I am dead. course I guess that’s kind of the difference is humans aren’t so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2’ away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.
the living dead
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TheFogan@programming.dev 10 hours ago
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Depends on the human. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard's_syndrome
Side note: I am furious that I wasn’t able to find the name of this syndrome without ChatGPT. Is this a skill issue or are traditional search engines (in this case DuckDuckGo) just completely useless now?
Randomocity@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I googled “human thinks he’s dead” and that Wikipedia page was the first result
Tithen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Pretty much the whole Internet got worse in the last decade. Search engines are a pain to use nowadays.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
seems like it might be skill issue in this case. a Google search for “medical condition person thinks they’re dead” gave it immediately
match@pawb.social 8 hours ago
duckduckgo has become pretty worthless for search, ecosia is slightly better i think but without the privacy benefits. i have a local llm running in koboldcpp that i use if i really need to just bounce words off something while it nods along
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Traditional search engines are fucking garbage lately. You search for two words and it gives you generic results for whichever’s more popular. Or it decides a brief phrase, however generic, must mean exactly one thing, so you only see results related to a song by that title.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
“Ed Wilson”
More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Read his book “The Social Conquest of Earth” if this intrigues you.
Genius@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Not the anarchists
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
My ex would say, “that rules like anarchy.” Cute.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Sounds like propaganda tbh
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Maybe let go of your social constructs and view it from a purely biological position. Like it or not, there are people with more power that dictate structure and an order of things.
Sometimes, pal, science doesn’t gel with emotions. Re: anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, contrail believers, ad nauseum.
Get over yourself, read the fucking book, or keep your uninformed opinions quiet.
moseschrute@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
You have a spray bottle of oleic acid
Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr
protist@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book “The Ants” is mind-bogglingly thorough
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Also, Social Conquest of Earth.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
E.O. Wilson is my hero. More people should study his work for how to approach science. Passion and curiosity got him everywhere.
scytale@piefed.zip 8 hours ago
I wonder what will happen if they put that chemical into an insecticide spray.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
fist and in earth history to get a day off
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Was this a House episode?
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Probably not getting buried, though.
Probably.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
In a lot of places in the US, a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse is going to catch 2 to the head.