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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by barbazoo on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:58AM (#34506348)
Probably not a lot. Babies when they're born have billions of neurons but believe me, there isn't much going on yet :)
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by guerrilla on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:47PM (#34507161)
No, I don't believe you at all. If you hurt the baby, it suffers. Inability of most people to remember those times, doesn't make that not the case.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by wruza on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:50AM (#34515981)
It signals danger and performs a mechanical avoidance procedure. You react to it by feeling a protective emotion.

To know if it suffers, first you have to understand what suffering is, in scientific terms, and make sure you detach your builtin empathy from an actual process, because it’s only yours own.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by guerrilla on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:32AM (#34517079)
We literally have shittons of scientific research on exactly that. Not only that but many people can remember being babies.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by heywherelogingo on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:49PM (#34507193)
"believe me" - he could well have been a baby himself.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by jaywalk on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:03PM (#34507382)
What a deeply disturbing comment.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by barbazoo on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:27PM (#34508819)
What's "deeply disturbing" about that? I just meant that cognitively there isn't much going on yet.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by sethammons on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:34PM (#34513203)
"Believe me" doesn't cut it. Here are some accounts of remembering being born. My earliest memory is at 18 months old.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kned/i-remember-being-born

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Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) tec... by turbokatsu20 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:47PM (#34538585)
That smile is so creepy.
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