🅿️rofessor Kiosk 💊[first day as a therapist]
me: life is an insignificant blip in a meaningless universe and no one will remember any of us one day
them: that's not what I meant by “resolving my social anxiety”
Velocirooster adminensis 
@professorkiosk I feel seen
Ricki Yasha Tarr@theropologist @professorkiosk Here's the thing though, that really helped me, if life has no meaning and nothing I do matters, then what I make my life, who I am, and what my priorities are, is entirely up to me, I create my own meaning.
@RickiTarr @theropologist I'm not so worried about my life not meaning anything. But I do get caught wondering why in the world it was necessary for there to be consciousness in the first place. I mean, why is it LIKE anything to be a human? Why do we have an inner experience? It's simply not necessary... but here we are.
@professorkiosk @RickiTarr I think of consciousness and inner experience like the panda's "thumb" which is not really a thumb but an elongated wrist bone—not the best tool for the job, but good enough that it allowed us to survive. In our case it was this universe simulation machine in our brains that we can never turn off. In order to simulate the world and project current conditions into every possible future it had to be so complex and have so many interconnected parts that one of the side effects was this emergent phenomenon that we experience as consciousness. Totally unnecessary but unavoidable given what we have to work with.
@theropologist @professorkiosk So, you're saying this is The Matrix after all.
@RickiTarr @professorkiosk I'm saying we all live in our own personal matrix but it's more like augmented reality because it's layered on top of and informed by a real world that's out there but unknowable to us beyond the abstractions our brain creates for us.
Oh no I Kant believe I'm back on my bullshit again
@theropologist @professorkiosk Listen I can't see my nose because my brain just decided it was unnecessary, I don't know what to believe, NOTHING IS REAL