The ego is just a placeholder we use to describe the primary "machinic" processes that produce consciousness in the brain. What the "ego" constituted by these processes wants or “ cares" about is no more inherently significant than e.g. the arrangement of carbon atoms in a rock.
Corollary to the above: biological “forms" aren’t rigorously separable from non-biological “forms.” Life is just auto-production. RNA crystals and self-replicating silicon both have claims to the term.
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I have no "problem" recognizing silicon as a separate form of life once it actually starts replicating itself (in a way that's not equivalent to piggying off the back of another more self-sufficient lifeform).
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Accelerationism: the idea that this will happen sooner than you think
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It's possible. It's also possible that it will happen a lot later than you think. It's also possible that it will be a whimper rather than a bang -- biological forms continuing side by side.
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