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werewhulf
smartaleckette

February 13, 2013 - the day Canada’s Parliament debated the zombie apocalypse. (x)

mad-scientist-hououin

Canada, the only nation discussing the most important issues of our day.

atopfourthwall

See? Canada has a zombie plan and so should you!

wildunicornherd

i want to emphasize that this is not from a comedy movie, it literally happened, like in real life, in parliament, between real people

thetricksterslittlehelper

I love how everyone else in the back are just cracking up!

stephrc79

If I ever don’t reblog this, assume Canada was taken.

dllhowlter

what the fuck canada

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fr0styfingers
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okay so

i want you to get anything denim from your house and just fucking bite it. bite it as hard as you can

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zombie apocalypse?

all-denim outfit.

the anti-zombie juniform

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even in a zombie apocalypse you’re not catching me wearing a double denim 

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@leonorkirk 😂

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quietly-islayem: “ nefepants: “ gallowsfoo: “ grindrella: “ spacedrinks: “ HOLY SHIT THIS IS HUGE ” i don’t know why everyone is so obsessed with the zombie apocalypse when the robot war is a real and looming threat ” fooexe Good news Your world is...
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HOLY SHIT THIS IS HUGE

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i don’t know why everyone is so obsessed with the zombie apocalypse when the robot war is a real and looming threat

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nefepants

Basically they got three robots, told them that two of them were given “dumbing pills”, and they asked one which pill it was given.

The robot of course wasn’t sure if it had or hadn’t yet and said “I don’t know”, but after it looked at the other silent robots (who were actually unable to speak from the start), it realized that its fully functional, and then was finally able to say “I know now.”

It can assess itself and its behavior in relation to other robots and people. It can make that differentiation between “me” and “I”, and understand that it is an individual.

People are shrugging this off, but this is a similar self-awareness test to how people put mirrors in front of animals to see if it treats the reflection like another animal or treat it like a reflection.

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Im lowkey scared

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HOLY SHIT THIS IS HUGE

grindrella

i don’t know why everyone is so obsessed with the zombie apocalypse when the robot war is a real and looming threat

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fooexe

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nefepants

Basically they got three robots, told them that two of them were given “dumbing pills”, and they asked one which pill it was given.

The robot of course wasn’t sure if it had or hadn’t yet and said “I don’t know”, but after it looked at the other silent robots (who were actually unable to speak from the start), it realized that its fully functional, and then was finally able to say “I know now.”

It can assess itself and its behavior in relation to other robots and people. It can make that differentiation between “me” and “I”, and understand that it is an individual.

People are shrugging this off, but this is a similar self-awareness test to how people put mirrors in front of animals to see if it treats the reflection like another animal or treat it like a reflection.

science the phrase 'i know now' feels like it could be awfully dramatic meaning i want a book about a robot having an existential crisis over whether its sentient or not and at the end realizes that he has power over his actions and that its not just his programming that controls him like ugh i forgot what it was called but in psychology theres this debate over whether a human really has free will because a human does things with reason so then no a human doesnt have free will a human eats because he is hungry is that free will or is he being controlled by his hunger? see what i mean? i want a robot like that and at the end realizing that because he does not hunger or thirst or have instincts driving him that he has been free and sentient all along and the last words of the book are 'i know now.'
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The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized

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As it turns out, it works much more elaborately and much MORE like the dramatized sci-fi horror parasites constantly inspired by it.

These fungi integrate themselves on the cellular level with the host’s tissues, actually seem to send signals to the host’s muscles and even alter the host’s genes with their own.

All the while, THE BRAIN ISN’T INVADED AT ALL.

These fungi, all along, have been converting their hosts into animal-fungal hybrids they control while the host’s brain and consciousness remain helplessly alive and largely unaltered.

thebibliosphere

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