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went for a swim today, when I was on the deck stretching this old dude in the lane next to me was very obviously checking me out. hop in and throughout the swim I notice him looking in my direction while in the water. get into the locker room and he is changing next to me, then before putting his shirt on starts putting lotion slowly all over his body, all the while sneaking glances at me. he will probably be jerkin it to the memory of my chiseled body for the rest of the week. and there's nothing I can do about that

wow that volcano fits perfectly on that stand, awesome

hell yea, then when it rains jack up the prices on umbrellas like crazy

welcome to the machine

I teared up during life of pi

I applied because I want to keep the ball rolling so to speak, I feel like if I leave school it will be too hard to come back. plus I actually do want to get a masters, my undergrad is in the pure sciences and I applied for engineering programs in materials science mostly. what I don't want to do is more bs academic lab work and memorize crap so I can stay afloat amongst the sea of silent studying asians in my major.

btw xy, how's med school treating you

Now that I'm almost done I care so little about my classes. Waiting to hear back from grad schools is really all I care about at this point

of course I don't think that other theories of consciousness are invalidated, but to me they are significantly devalued since they basically boil down to people wondering aloud, whereas at least the quantum theory of consciousness offers a working predictive model. I don't really know what you take so much issue with, if you want all theories to be evaluated wouldn't you want to give better theories more weight? I cannot think of a way you could explain consciousness without delving into the details and actually going into the subatomic level. what have previous centuries of thought given us that is so useful on this subject? I don't really believe you can ever make meaningful discoveries by just using a bunch of big words which relate to other big words, which have in and of themselves been created out of consciousness, the thing they were trying to describe.

in my mind, so called 'pure philosophical' discussions get bogged down in semantics and you end up arguing about definitions and abstractions which are not that meaningful to me. unless you are dealing with pure symbolic logic, words are just concepts which are inherently inexact. I also think it's perfectly reasonable to cross apply ideas from one area to another, there is no logical reason why this should not be allowed. in fact, if you yourself had read the stanford wiki, you would find the mention of hamerhoff and penrose, who postulate a quantum theory of consciousness which incorporates modern physics in their explanation. nobody knew about things like bosons and fermions centuries ago, but today there have actually been advances made which cast a very new and interesting light on this issue.

somehow I knew from the way today was going that it was going to end with some terrible news. it is almost cruel how we adjust to things so quickly that we often forget what is really important. if you are reading this please take a moment to truly reflect and consider what you think is most valuable in your life

You guys should try windsurfing/kite surfing, pretty sure there's a bunch in kenting. The penghu islands off the western coast is like one of the best places in the world to windsurf

I'm on my phone and it won't let me blow up the pics, but is it biutiful?

edit: lol nvm now that I can see the pics clearly it is def not

tell her she's beautiful

(lol)

I'd just like to reiterate the sentiments previously expressed in this thread: climber girls are indeed very attractive and chill

Well played scientifick

dom that mix is fire

My buddy said he just got 3 weekend one tickets, strange happenings with coachella servers

marissa mayer aka ceo of yahoo bringing up that 4Q

what'd you think? is it just about psychedelics?

pho y #1 on capitol expressway is bomb

read how to win friends and influence people by dale carnegie

today was like my 2nd time bouldering and I almost nabbed a V2+. need to cop shoes asap and a membership

yea I heard the same, like the rumors are actually about an album or something. bjork would be cool too, would love to hear this