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Couldn't pass up that Avatar reference

settle this for me once and for all

is “chai” a TYPE of tea??! bc in Hindi/Urdu, the word chai just means tea

The reasoning of the theory that it will gain consciousness is discredited if you take into account that the internet is saturated with billions of people and ai resulting in basically a hive mind, like the science side of tumblr.

« [S]ome AI researchers believe machines will inevitably acquire consciousness as an emergent property when they reach some critical level of complexity. For what it’s worth (which I freely admit to be very little), I have no faith in these claims. The complexity argument seemed plausible a half century ago when computers were in their infancy. Today, consider a simple thought experiment: Which is more complex, the internet (including every computer attached to it), or the brain of a frog? The internet, I would say. And which is more likely to have some sort of inner experience, the internet or the frog? I’ll put my money on the amphibian. »

— Keith Holyoak, The Spider’s Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry

"[Character] has the brain cell."

Yes, they do have the brain cell, but unfortunately, the singular brain cell that they possess is an astrocyte, the most common type of brain cell, and not a neuron.

Astrocytes play a role in the structural support of neurons and maintaining a healthy balance of neurotransmitters, so that character's singular brain cell is simply there for support. It isn't actually there to do any thinking.

hey science side of tumblr, what the fuck is this? why is my sky cut in thirds?

it disappeared a minute later but ive never seen this before.

So, I candied some orange peel today. Naturally, as a consequence due to the law of equivalent exchange, I have created a metric fuckton of orange simple syrup, and. . . this shit tastes exactly like fruitloops??? Why????

I need a hero right now (science side of tumblr)

Started to write my essay and the first line of the serious scientific paper was about mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.

Have the scientists become self aware? Do they know the meme? 

to all you people saying “Nb’S dOn’T eXiSt!” Go back to your middle school science class AND LOOK AT THE TABLE!!

THERE! SCIENCE SIDE OF TUMBLR PROVE ME RIGHT!!

it could be worse. i could be a sophomore in high school

bringing back the interstellar fandom one cranky science nerd at a time