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Comment author: James_Miller 03 September 2014 01:50:02AM 6 points [-]

Dreams demonstrate that our brains (and even rat brains) are capable of creating complex, immersive, fully convincing simulations. Waking life is also a kind of dream. Our consciousness exists, and is shown particular aspects of reality. We see what we see for adaptive reasons, not because it is the truth. Nerds are the ones who notice that something is off - and want to see what's really going on.

The View from Hell from an article recommended by asd.

Comment author: Username 06 September 2014 06:13:16PM 5 points [-]

I downvoted this and another comment further up for not being about anything but nerd pandering, which I feel is just ego-boosting noise. Not the type of content I want to see on here.

Comment author: James_Miller 06 September 2014 06:31:11PM 1 point [-]

Well, if you think the quote doesn't say significantly more than "nerds are great" you are right to downvote it.

Comment author: therufs 06 September 2014 07:29:22PM 0 points [-]

I think the comment in this thread would have been equally relevant and possibly better without the last sentence, but don't see how the Cryptonomicon quote (which I assume to be the one you meant?) as nerd-pandering, since it doesn't imply value judgments from it about being or identifying as a nerd.

Comment author: Username 07 September 2014 03:55:50AM *  1 point [-]

The Cryptonomicron quote was great, I was talking about its child comment.

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