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Gail Alfar (Austin, TX)
@GailAlfarATX
"It appears that consciousness is a very rare & precious thing & we should take whatever steps we can to preserve the light of consciousness. Only now, after 4.5 billion years has that window been open. That’s a long time to wait and it might not stay open for long.” -
@elonmusk
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Pete
@iPeteP
I assume you are stating humans make consciousness special. Probably in context. We need to operationally define life. I believe everything is alive and conscious at both the micro and macro level. Everything possesses data, stores, processes, analyzes and acts on it.
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Skyler
@RoslingSky
Earth and all life on it has been around for 4.5 billion. Humans only the last six million years.
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Pete
@iPeteP
Ah, but define life. Scientists still don't agree on a definition. Is an oxygen molecule alive? No? Yet it knows what it is. And it knows what to do in the presence of two hydrogen molecules which also know what they are.
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Pete
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Ah but define death. Is a stone alive? It moves albeit slowly if you put a camera on it and watch over time you will see itovesk, it interacts w it's environment thru chemical processes and it eventually crumbles into smaller particles essentially disintegrating..
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