• @[email protected]
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    182 days ago

    Last change made by Evolution, commit message “ehh good enough TODO fix in next release”, 500 million years ago

  • @Oijkuij
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    242 days ago

    You know what the alternatives are, right? either we have two mouths, or we speak with our nostrils and the silent, gaping hole below only unhinges for the consumption of organic matter.

  • Ignotum
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    673 days ago

    “Design is fine, is just user error”
    - every designer ever

  • @[email protected]
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    513 days ago

    Efficiency is making the same structure work for dual purposes…like garbage disposal + procreation.

  • @lowleveldata
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    82 days ago

    identical unmarked doors

    Bro I don’t think you are supposed to look at it to determine which way food goes

    • @[email protected]
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      12 days ago

      I wonder what the implications would be, if every body part were labeled (including innards).

      • @chiliedogg
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        22 days ago

        It would raise some pretty interesting philosophical questions.

  • @ArdMacha
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    62 days ago

    This is what allows you to hold your breath underwater

  • @other_cat
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    52 days ago

    All you can eat sinuses

  • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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    Thinking about how smell might have developed is kind of cool. Some mutation allowing cells to detect smell (something modern science is kind of puzzled by) then just sending those signals to the brain and saying, you figure it out. I’d bet there is some other property of matter that exists that we have no ability to detect.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 days ago

      Isn’t smell just particulate matter hitting receptors not dissimilar to how taste receptors send taste signals to the brain? I thought science had this stuff nailed down now?

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          32 days ago

          Science shit?

          I dont know…but I wouldn’t say that’s a good reason to doubt it, for example I don’t know how they proved black holes exist but they seem pretty confident.

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            Ok, if it’s just particles how does it distinguish the particles on a molecular level. This is important shit. The closest science can do is gas chromatography and that’s an instrument which exists in any reputable lab. Also, using gas chromatography for this a far cry from the simple function of our sense of smell which can distinguish scents just by simply introducing a fragrence.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 days ago

              I believe the receptor cell responds to a particular part of the molecule in question. Artificial flavourings and scents have identical (or similar enough) parts to trigger the same response, but are otherwise different molecules.

              • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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                12 days ago

                I think someone said the number of combinations for a key and lock receptor was insurmountable. Don’t quote me.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 days ago

              Maybe I’m misreading your tone, but I’m not trying to argue with you - I’m genuinely curious about this and if you have superior knowledge I’m open!

              My understanding from a quick skim of Wikipedia citations suggests we understand what’s involved (particles and receptors) but the actual mechanism around encoding of signals seems to be theory.

              We also can’t teach a computer to think, but we still have quite a good idea of how it works.