having an opinion on philosophy makes you a philosopher. even if you think philosophy is stupid and pointless, THAT’S A PHILOSOPHY. you can’t escape
suddenly Scotchtape’s comic makes sense to me
[id: a three panel comic. a grey alien wearing a red hoodie, drinking from a red plastic cup and smoking, says “Socrates was a lil bitch.” they take a drink from the cup and say “i don’t know jack shit neither, but you don’t see me braggin about it.’ they look down and see they’re suddenly wearing a yellow sash that reads “SOCRATES 2.0″, and respond “aw hell”. the artist is scotchtapeofficial, source here]
the fact you can get drunk while bodyswapped through the ancient communication stones raises some philosophical questions.
why are you drunk at all if your consciousness is plugged into another person’s body? if the stones transmit your mind out of your body, then the drunk person should be whoever has the drunk body. you shouldn’t get drunk in their body, they should be getting drunk on the other side of the universe. but no, in the show being in a drunk body is what makes you drunk, and the person on the other end isn’t affected, even if their body is drunk, despite their mind coming from a body which is currently drunk.
it implies that using the stones doesn’t transmit your mind from your body like a signal, but instead there’s a complete disconnect between your body and mind. body and mind are properly swapped, as if there’s a mind, containing your memories and your self, that can exist on its own as separate to the brain.
although, this does make sense in the context of the show. there is, literally, a computer hard drive full of ghosts we find in season 2, as well as, Ascension as a concept. this thing with the stones is just the weirdest example of the existence of a soul or something in this show now that I’ve noticed it.
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