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Puck85 t1_j4efbkq wrote
Reply to comment by Billbat1 in Women with high body dissatisfaction, when compared to women with low body dissatisfaction, directed their gaze more frequently and for longer durations towards low weight female body stimuli by giuliomagnifico
"Not" dissatisfaction and satisfaction are not the same. That's too binary.
Puck85 t1_iukbeq7 wrote
Reply to comment by grahad in Study uncovers a surprising temporal relationship between cognitive function and physical activity by BlitzOrion
I think it's an important study for that reason.
We see articles all the time that essentially say, "staying active keeps you mentally fit." But then the trope in this sub is to question the causality of that: maybe mental decline contributes to inactivity.
The causation could be backwards. Isn't that what this study suggests?
Puck85 t1_iufedsr wrote
Reply to comment by Thebitterestballen in Conscious Reality Is Only a Memory of Unconscious Actions, Scientists Propose In Radical New Theory by mossadnik
it's exhausting that threads about this type of research devolve into everyone's personal thoughts.
The article involves experts in this field. Let's talk about them instead of your thoughts.
Puck85 t1_iuf71ve wrote
Reply to comment by Lost_Vegetable887 in Conscious Reality Is Only a Memory of Unconscious Actions, Scientists Propose In Radical New Theory by mossadnik
ok, that's your theory. I can't say it applies to other apparently-conscious things, like crows or dogs, since they aren't social in the ways humans are, so i'm not satisfied with your approach because it doesn't address other forms of consciousness, and it even gets things backwards, because how can unconscious complicated social structures develop anyway?
actually reading the article provides some insight:
“Our theory of consciousness rejects the idea that consciousness initially evolved in order to allow us to make sense of the world and act accordingly, and then, at some later point, episodic memory developed to store such conscious representations,” Budson and his colleagues said in the study. “Our theory is that consciousness developed with the evolution of episodic memory simply—and powerfully—to enable the phenomena of remembering.”
“We posit further that consciousness was subsequently co-opted to produce other functions that are not directly relevant to memory per se, such as problem-solving, abstract thinking, and language,” the team noted. “We suggest that this theory is compatible with many phenomena, such as the slow speed and the after-the-fact order of consciousness, that cannot be explained well by other theories. We believe that our theory may have profound implications for understanding intentional action and consciousness in general.”
Please read the article folks. It's interesting.
Puck85 t1_jdxo0gp wrote
Reply to comment by dern_the_hermit in Everyone talks about how huge Andromeda will look in the sky billions of years from now. I present you what the Milky Way *currently* looks like in the skies of our neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. We appear absolutely huge in their skies! [Simulated view] by lampiaio
Space = time = more pizza rolls cooked up.