By the tabloid standard of truth; i.e., it’s true someone claimed that. 
Our species is conscious in the plural; it mulls things over across the course of a few hundred years, clarifies its thinking, etc.
The individuals of our species, despite the illusion of independent individual thinking, mostly only contribute very tiny variations, little nudges in the direction fo one or another already-existing pattern of thinking.
I’ve spelled this out here on this board before…
Airplanes can’t really fly. I mean, c’mon, they’re the size of a building, weigh tons, but because they have flat parts that stick out a certain way, and they go a few dozen miles per hour they can float in the air? Y’sure, tell me another one.
I believe that someone is going to get ahold of the Wright brothers original calculations and redo them - they’re going to discover that on page 148, in column 3, that they forget to carry the 7, and consequently all of their calculations were faulty. At the exact moment that is discovered, every plane aloft will immediately cease to be able to fly. :eek:
Well, I for one believe in your theory, you’re speaking from experience. 
That’s fascinating. To me, it’s little more implausible than consciousness itself, which exists among thousands of individual cells, none of which can lay claim to their own consciousness.
+1 Its the one that killed all the donosaurs (anyone else remember when the dinosaurs were supposed to have been killed by some sort of superplague?)
Have you seen the portion sizes at cheescake factory? Especially the portion size of their cheesecake? Now compare it to portion sizes in places like Italy and France. That has got to account for some of it too.
And who is the famoious German romantic/lover you would like to point out to us?
Makes sense. Never trust an elf.
I think average heights are increasing because of all the hormones we pump into our meat.
I think that allergies are increasing as a result of all the anti-biotics we pump into our meat.
I think autism and learning diabilities are highly overdiagnosed largely as a result of parents who don’t want to admit that their kids are stupid.
This is why i love wikipedia.
Not the same concept I had in mind, though. What I was thinking of was purely descriptive, i.e., this is what’s happening no matter what you do, and no one is really to blame for it – it’s just a macro aspect of human nature.
ADD is correlated with microwaved food.
People with Schizophrenia are “the chosen ones.”
Autism is connected with something caused by people–chemicals, foods, technology, something…
This is embarrassing and cathartic all at once.
Nope. Hoover. In both Kennedy shootings.
Goldfish are humans
who masturbated too much,
reincarnated
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Autism is connected with something caused by people–chemicals, foods, technology, something…
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Could it be . . . microwaved food?
I agree, I have American relations who are taking meds for something, then another med to counteract the side effects of that meds, then another med to counteract the side effect…
They are taking up to 15 different tablets a day!
If there was a conspiracy in RFK’s shooting, it involved Nixon. My private, off-the-wall theory.
Oh, yes. You will find a few radical professors here and there who buy into less drastic versions of this–generally people with no specialized training in the periods in question. Not much you can do when they already have tenure.
JFK’s assasnation was arranged by Hugh D. Auchincloss, the very protective step-father of Jacqueline Bouvier.
Atheism is caused by observational deficiencies.
I feel the same way but would also add ADD/ADHD.*
*There are, however, a number of children who legitimately have these disorders. I actually feel worse for them as we are spending far too much time and energy on children who don’t really need it.
It’s not big enough. Chicxulub crater is 180 km in diameter, the Gulf of Mexico is about 900 km from north to south, 1600 km from east to west. The largest known impact structure in the world is the Vredefort crater in South Africa, which is about 300 km in diameter.
There are lakes that were formed by asteroid impacts, but they’re not even close to the size of the Gulf of Mexico. There are also crater lakes filling volcanic craters, which is the more common use of the term crater lake. Crater Lake in Oregon is in a volcanic crater, not an impact crater.
This. And I suspect there are basic logical faults in modern physicists’ philosophical understanding of the universe, which are not only reasonably apparent, but correctable, but the set of people who sufficiently grok a basic philosophy of logic to point them out barely overlaps with those patient enough with the mathematics of a fantasized quantum universe to become experts in physics. And now quantum physics is *chic, *so it’s hanging on.
Or maybe the universe really is that strange.
Oh, I suspect all matter has basic consciousness. What brains give us is networking between molecules and long-term complex memory storage.