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More Parmesan? - Existential Comics (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sirdorius@programming.dev to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Haagel@lemmings.world 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If the rationalist deduces what is logical based on their empirical experience then their reasoning is flawed. We have to accept the axiomatic truth that our senses are limited and cannot account for an absolute truth.

To separate valid perceptions from invalid ones, a person first must assume that the world can be known through the senses. They must also assume that the world is objectively real. These assumptions do not get along well with one other. To say the world is objectively real is to say it is independent of and indifferent to sense perception. Then what in the world can we know? We can know only the effects of the parmesan cheese upon our senses, not the cheese itself.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

We experience a world through the senses. We have no other way to experience any world that may or may not exist. The world experienced through the senses is apparently consistent, and if we do not deal with it, we have bad sensory experiences, or cease to be experienceable to each other entirely. So, since this is the only world we can interact with, and how we do so matters to our happiness, all we can do is take this world on its own terms and deal with it.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The objectively real world may be separate from and indifferent to sense perception, but sense perception isn't indifferent to the objective world. Sense perceptions are caused by an interaction of our sense organs and the world. Surely from repeated patterns of sense perception we can draw some correct inferences about the external world?

[–] Haagel@lemmings.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How can we be sure that those inferences are correct? Any appeal to empirical evidence would be circular reasoning.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

"correct" is a heavy word there. Would reproducible and predictable suffice?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And don't call me Shirley.

[–] Haagel@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

Surely you can't be serious

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're supposed to taste it before you have them do their little cheese ritual. All that intelligence, and like 7 wisdom.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No you're supposed to take all the cheese and make little cheese angels on the floor while they grate it around you

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You and I may have different objectives at an Italian restaurant. Yours sounds more fun.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree with the chef.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I agree with the pasta, which questions if it's good enough and takes the notion of an implied revisit of another ingredient as a validation of its inadequacies.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love parmesan and will take as much as I can before my spouse starts to scowl at me

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I too love cheese and want to eat a shit ton of it but I count my calories because I don't want to end up fat

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

This is definitely the best thing I've seen today.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Why is he holding a cheese grater like that? I don't want any blood in my food tyvm.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 2 years ago

Prude

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

He's using the fine grating side, as is appropriate for parmesan

When using one of the small sides of the grater, you hold it by the large edges, but since you're not rubbing your fingers up and down the blades you will be uninjured

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do you want some grated child on your pasta sir ?

Edit: typo

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

gotta get your iron somehow

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like it. It is a bit heavy handed with the philosophy. I would love to see more.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 16 points 2 years ago

Existential Comics is a philosophical comic.

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh fuck I've had this same thought when the waiter offers pepper or parmesan.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

The philosophy is plagued with circular logic (thus is the joke). Occam's Razor would state that the guy probably just likes cheese.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The gourmet has not proven that it is impossible to make a decision, only that it is impossible to make an optimal one. In order to do that, he would have to collect data, presumably by patronizing the restaurant multiple times and ordering the same dish each time with different quantities of cheese.

Had the waiter simply reminded the gourmet of this, he would have generated possibly substantial additional revenue for the restaurant, not to mention substantial savings on cheese. It is therefore my recommendation that

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't say "when" until there is a mountain of cheese 2 feet high on my plate. And I sit there watching the plate in awkward silence the entire time.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Instead of making it awkward, perform the Austin Powers photography monologue.

"Yes. Yes! YES."

"NO! NO!"

"Yes"

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If all knowledge is empirical, you have your solution already. Just make an experiment. Use a heuristic to estimate an amount, test it and adjust as you go.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

He did! The heuristic was "what the chef recommends" and the next meal will adjust that estimate downward... assuming "as much cheese as possible" doesn't result in the collapse of the universe.

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I used to go thru this every night at the olive garden. 12yr olds can be so mean.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I see that the chef is of the same I Always Want More school of parmesan as Ben Lapidus and Heidi Klum.