![]() Consider: Is it like something to be a whole octopus, to be its central brain or to be a single octopus arm? The science of consciousness provides no easy way of finding out. Only a third of your neurons are in a central brain the rest are in the nerve cords in each of your eight arms, one for each arm. You have eight curly, grippy, sensitive arms for getting around and catching prey but no skeleton, and so you can squeeze yourself through tiny spaces. We share a lot with bats: we, too, have ears and can imagine our arms as wings. If there is something (anything) it is like for the bat, it is conscious. We may try to imagine what it is like to sleep upside down or to navigate the world using sonar, but does it feel like anything at all? The crux here is this: If there is nothing it is like to be a bat, we can say it is not conscious. We do not even have a clear definition beyond appealing to a famous question asked by philosopher Thomas Nagel back in 1974: What is it like to be a bat? Nagel chose bats because they live such very different lives from our own. The question is hard because although your own consciousness may seem the most obvious thing in the world, it is perhaps the hardest to study. Could it really be that we alone have an extra special something-this marvelous inner world of subjective experience? Yet the more biology we learn, the more obvious it is that we share not only anatomy, physiology and genetics with other animals but also systems of vision, hearing, memory and emotional expression. And in the 17th century French philosopher René Descartes argued that other animals have only reflex behaviors. In medieval Christianity the “great chain of being” placed humans on a level above soulless animals and below only God and the angels. – One of the greatest trollers out there.Might we humans be the only species on this planet to be truly conscious? Might lobsters and lions, beetles and bats be unconscious automata, responding to their worlds with no hint of conscious experience? Aristotle thought so, claiming that humans have rational souls but that other animals have only the instincts needed to survive. – □□ Various Examples #sleeperagent #fyp #killjohnlennon #spies #gayspiderman ♬ kill john lennon. ![]() #funny #meme #fyp #sleeperagent ♬ original sound – Josh Why was she suddenly on a MISSION #fyp #foryou #catsoftiktok #sleeperagent ♬ kill john lennon. On March 30th, 2022, user joked that they had activated their cat by using a popular TikTok sound that said "Kill John Lennon," gaining over 1.8 million likes in one year (shown below, right). ![]() For example, on August 2nd, 2022, TikToker posted a video of a man singing the names of SpongeBob characters with a caption about the CIA attempting to activate someone's activation phrase, gaining over 38,000 likes in nearly one year (shown below, left). ![]() The term has also inspired jokes on TikTok over the years. On April 9th, 2023, Twitter user joked that his activation phrase was “Taika Waititi’s Akira,” gaining over 180 retweets and 2,800 likes in one month (shown below, right). For example, on December 19th, 2018, Twitter user bonerman_inc joked that their activation phrase was "Baby Dab Avatar PS4 $0.99," gaining 20 retweets and over 270 likes in over four years (shown below, left). Over the following years, the term became increasingly popularized and was particularly used to respond to tweets that featured slang overload.
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