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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 21:22:15 2019 No.11018078 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11018183 >>11018225 >>11018261 >>11018816 >>11018858 >>11018868

Do sperms have consciousness? Personalities?

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 21:24:42 No.11018082 Report

Quoted By: >>11018087

>consciousness
no
>personalities
not actively, but they hold the genetics for it. but only half

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 21:26:27 No.11018087 Report

Quoted By: >>11018088 >>11018094

>>11018082
Which half though? Is it random? Does that mean each sperm contains a random selection of half? How does sperm creation even happen?

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 21:27:16 No.11018088 Report

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>>11018087
it happens in the balls

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 21:30:11 No.11018094 Report

Quoted By: >>11019107

>>11018087
Sperm are haploid gametes, and only hold half of the chromosomes normal chromosomes have, just like eggs. They combine to make a full set in the zygote, and are produced via meiosis in the testicles.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 22:08:29 No.11018183 Report

Quoted By: >>11018222 >>11018816

>>11018078
>Do sperms have consciousness?
define "consciousness"

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 22:20:15 No.11018222 Report

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>>11018183
consciousness: noun. something normies talk about but it has no real definition. synonyms: gibberish, jabberwocky, gobbledeegook

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 22:20:40 No.11018225 Report

Quoted By: >>11018280 >>11018816 >>11018829 >>11018854 >>11020071 >>11020933

>>11018078
If any other sperm had fertilized the egg instead of me, would I just not exist or would I be me but just have a different set of genes?

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 22:28:05 No.11018238 Report

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This has to be bait.
The absolute state of /sci/

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 22:41:02 No.11018261 Report

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>>11018078
Nigga looking like Yes Man from FONV

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 22:47:40 No.11018280 Report

Quoted By: >>11018291 >>11018829

>>11018225
Someone smart answer this please

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 22:53:08 No.11018291 Report

Quoted By: >>11018584 >>11018630

>>11018280
If a single moth in China flapped its wings a couple extra times before you were born, you would not "be you"

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 00:54:09 No.11018584 Report

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>>11018291
Shut up Ashton Kutcher. I said someone smart answer it.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 01:10:56 No.11018630 Report

Quoted By: >>11018650 >>11018659 >>11018842 >>11019057

>>11018291
How is this possible? What's the effect called? Why can a couple flaps of the wing of a useless insect cause a significant change in the dynamic of the universe?

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 01:17:30 No.11018650 Report

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>>11018630
because

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 01:19:31 No.11018659 Report

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>>11018630
Causal determinism. Different events requires different universe.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 02:08:27 No.11018816 Report

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>>11018225
depends if you believe in a soul and all that. I don't. I believe your personality is made up of the same chemicals and neurons that your genes determine

>>11018078
no, single cell organisms do not have consciousness or personalities

>>11018183
conscienceness, at a real basic level, being the state of not only being able to intake and process information and make judgments (not just if A than B programming), but also cognitive self awareness
"I think, therefore I am"

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 02:11:32 No.11018829 Report

Quoted By: >>11018861

>>11018225
>>11018280
You would be you but with a different set of genes. It was already fated who your parents were to be, but the particular arrangement and configuration of the physical matter that comprises the flesh suit unto which you incarnate is largely stochastic.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 02:17:02 No.11018842 Report

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>>11018630
it's called the butterfly effect
it does not need to be a butterfly. it happens all the fucking time and it's kind of scary how much of history is the product of this effect, such as a wrong left turn resulted in two cities getting vaporized, or how a misplaced stick resulted in the Roman Empire being the ones to conquer the Mediterranean and shape world history and modern governing and determine what language you're speaking right now, or how a retard sperm edged out a different retard sperm and this thread was created

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 02:25:47 No.11018854 Report

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>>11018225
You would not exist but someone pretty similar to you would exist. I don’t think YOU could have consciousness of this similar person unless your model of consciousness is something like “I” experience a moving set of things that are very similar to each other and experience them less the more different they get.

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Solivagus (Polynomial Philosopher) Mon 30 Sep 2019 02:27:07 No.11018858 Report

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>>11018078
Yes, they are the 'fluid of transcendental time'. Having a son/male heir is a punishment bestowed upon only the worst of women/men pairings.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 02:27:42 No.11018861 Report

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>>11018829
It would not be him/her except only superficially. Maybe they would have different hair color or be bipolar maybe they would be much smarter— genes can transform your life/health, and it could be a small sequence here or there that makes the difference. The thing is that sperm that obviously has horrible mutations wouldn’t survive long enough to make it to the egg. If it is produced at all it probably dies immediately or would be out swum.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 02:31:38 No.11018868 Report

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>>11018078
It is an interesting question. They clearly have motion and the mechanics of it seem directional. Why isn’t that enough for consciousness? Do sperm decide their specific movements? If so then consciousness also probably exists in bacteria and plants.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 02:34:43 No.11018875 Report

Quoted By: >>11019135

When most people talk about consciousness they are explicit in referring to a human mind and it’s fairly complex present activities like thinking... I don’t think this can be a consistent definition of consciousness in the first place but on my view a lot of things are more or less conscious because they display some measure of action potential and decision making. Some people don’t like this because humans are supposed to be conscious and that’s it, but I think it’s obvious animals are also, among other things.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 04:29:13 No.11019057 Report

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>>11018630
Not a moth, my child, but
A BUTTERFLY

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 04:52:59 No.11019107 Report

Quoted By: >>11019527

>>11018094
This

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 05:11:45 No.11019135 Report

Quoted By: >>11019239

>>11018875
I thought consciousness meant that you're aware of your existence.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 06:52:23 No.11019239 Report

Quoted By: >>11019251

>>11019135
Any kind of decision making implies awareness.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 06:57:44 No.11019251 Report

Quoted By: >>11019255 >>11019263

>>11019239
>internet routers have awareness

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Solivagus (Polynomial Philosopher) Mon 30 Sep 2019 06:59:23 No.11019255 Report

Quoted By: >>11019263

>>11019251
>as do IP addresses and geographical locations called LAND.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 07:09:53 No.11019263 Report

Quoted By: >>11019295

>>11019255
>>11019251
1. Yes probably
2. Do internet routers decide things?

Solivagus (Polynomial Philosopher)

Solivagus (Polynomial Philosopher) Mon 30 Sep 2019 07:33:16 No.11019295 Report

Quoted By: >>11019365

>>11019263
1. They do, by virtue of stimulating the query inside you.
2. They are the mailmen of porn.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 08:55:01 No.11019365 Report

Quoted By: >>11019380

>>11019295
I’m sorry how does that amount to decision making?

Solivagus (Polynomial Philosopher)

Solivagus (Polynomial Philosopher) Mon 30 Sep 2019 09:17:44 No.11019380 Report

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>>11019365
Because I don't remember signing for every fucking data packet that gets filtered through my neurons, so why would you through your own circuitry do that, fellow electron spin-dancer?

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 11:08:26 No.11019527 Report

Quoted By: >>11019548

>>11019107
you don't have to say 'This'. You are'nt on instagram you cancerous faggot.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 11:20:57 No.11019548 Report

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>>11019527
Just because you don't understand haploidity doesn't mean you have to be rude

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 16:58:29 No.11020071 Report

Quoted By: >>11020671

>>11018225
You would be kinda your fraternal twin that never got born. So no.

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Solivagus (Polynomial Philosopher) Mon 30 Sep 2019 20:56:05 No.11020671 Report

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>>11020071
She sounds awesome, where is she?

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 22:15:37 No.11020933 Report

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>>11018225
Are you sure you are the sperm and not the egg?
The really creepy shit happens when you talk about ova.

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