Not fully, but we know it requires a minimum amount of activity in the brains of vertabrates, and at least observable in some large invertebrates.

I’m vastly oversimplifying and I’m not an expert, but essentially all consciousness is, is an automatic processing state of all present stimulation in a creatures environment that allows it to react to new information in a probably survivable way, and allow it to react to it in the future with minor changes in the environment. Hence why you can scare an animal away from food while a threat is present, but you can’t scare away an insect.

It appears that the frequency of activity is related to the amount of information processed and held in memory. At a certain threshold of activity, most unfiltered stimulus is retained to form what we would call consciousness - in the form of maintaining sensory awareness and at least in humans, thought awareness. Below that threshold both short term and long term memory are impaired, and no response to stimulation occurs. Basic autonomic function is maintained, but severely impacted.

The founders debated long after the constitution was ratified too.

Outlawing parties would be in direct violation of their first amendment. Humans are social by nature* - coalitions, parties, groups will form just because we exist.

*Yes I’m counting my AuADHD ass because even though I hate socializing with a passion I want to be able to.

Soooooo

Now what

It’s also why we need to avoid violence and make the regime stumble into itself.

Which is why Chinese and Russia propaganda is attempting to stoke the fire (remember, they eliminated their opposition, so they don’t have the same experience inciting violence and they think they do).

They can’t let him get to prison, and if they do, they have to make sure his cellmate plays along, or they arrange rewards for the group that takes him down.

If anyone in wherever he gets housed picks up what he did, he could end up leading the greatest prison revolt of all time.

Charasmatic intellectuals with an inherent distaste for authority are the most dangerous people for authoritarians.

And the benefit of using the harassment of women against you in the future if you step out of line.

It’s *consequences for thee and not for me" at the finest.

Goddamnit

Two morons arguing moron talking points calling each other morons. What the fuck is going on anymore.

IDK he might be a little aware. His constant “deer-in-the-headlights” stare might be that awareness just beginning to form and it generates something remotely similar to fear.

That is way too coherent to be Trump.

Correct I should specify he wasn’t the in-groyp (haha get it) to Fuentes.

Actually that’s a really good post. I didn’t know that salt without potassium would make you sick, as the products I used always had an amount of potassium in them.

And listening to our bodies shouldn’t be that hard, but here we are lol

I was in a miserable puddle of sensory overload. 15 years after the test I started learning that yeah I’m probably ASD, and there’s a strange correlation with ASD and POTS. Neuron magic.

And no problem with that yeah.

The sweat test was awful. You basically wear your underwear, lie down in what amounts to a glass oven, then they spread sand all over your and you sit still for an hour and bake. Then they take a picture at the end.

And purple means sweat, yellow means no sweat. It shows what sweat glands activated by the autonomic nervous system. Then you have to shower it off and it takes forever.

They were very professional about it though, it was a nurse, a doc, and technician. I guess they were doing multiple tests at the same time, but I never saw other people doing it. Which was a relief I didn’t really want to see other purple people

It does help me keep volume, definitely. I found ones called “vitassium”. They have 500mg of sodium, 100mg of potassium per pill. That seems to work ok with 3L, so it should help reduce your intake.

It’s kind of weird to think about though. All my life I had to listen to my family having too high blood pressure so I got used to not eating salt.

Well that backfired.

No, it’s somewhat more disturbing.

Kirk was outside of the shooter’s in group. In Fascism those in the out group need to shut up and get out of the way. It doesn’t matter to the shooter that Kirk was an ultraconservative bigoted lunatic, he wasn’t conservative enough. Since he was still talking and not getting out of the way, the Fascist believes he has an obligation to fix that problem.

And what’s stranger, is that there is no doubt in my mind that Kirk thought the same thing about Fuenes. But they would both agree that if I had any public speaking ability (or any speaking ability for that matter) I would definitely be more important to sanitize first.

Fascists are elementary school boys left without supervision. That’s all they really are.

One can only hope. First time I heard the white replacement theory I said “thank God, we sure as shit ruined it for everyone else.”

They believe the left consists of no one but minorities, lgbtq, and women.

I’m not kidding at all. I can walk right up to these conversations people will have and no one will blink an eye.

But they believe it so much that they will kill other white men who don’t conform to the group. That’s why Kirk was killed. He was a man that existed outside the in-group and needed to be cleaned up.

Well, bro, I got some bad news on that front.

I’ve been to two of the best hospitals in the world (not on purpose, just coincidentally and they wanted to check it out in their specialty clinics) and went through some unpleasant testing (one is called a thermoregulation sweat test that they cover you in color changing sand), and that’s the exact same thing I have to do.

I take 4 salt pills, drink 3 liters of water, Gatorade or Pedialyte and a beta blocker. I do cardio. The one thing I am starting to get better at now is lower body strength - my legs are pretty dinky and along with increased blood volume, bigger leg muscles can help ease the symptoms.

The beta blocker thing I got unlucky with though, there’s a few of them that are better for pots but I can’t metabolize them (or maybe I rapidly metabolize them so they don’t work at all, I cant remember).

Yeah, that was my son. He would throw a fit until he was about 5 that WE caused him to run into the wall.

Does really hot weather seem to cause it?

Do you seem to eat less salt than other people?

Do you have persistently low blood pressure but a heart rate that is easy to spike?

If you stretch just right will it happen?

I don’t want to just say “go see a doctor” but having collapsed at very bad opportunities, it is not worth finding out until it’s too late that you have to make some lifestyle changes to function.