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.
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Replace C++ with "the unitary 'I' " and hardware w/ "the brain"
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1) this reads like an extremely elaborate attempt to misunderstand the metaphor. 2) there is a good argument to be made that the first purpose of a programming language isn't to manipulate hardware -- it is to express an algorithm correctly and only *then* to manipulate HW
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You're just moving the algorithm onto different hardware (the brain). The alg has no existance independent of the physical. We're materialists, right? There's no world of forms.
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akschually... from a physical perspective.... information is a lot like matter... it's a thing that exists, and which cannot be completely "destroyed"
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But it only exists in/on matter
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If information were reducible to matter it is "written" on, then the Black Hole Information Paradox wouldn't exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox …
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Maybe the previous claim isn't strictly accurate (I'm not a quantum physicist), but it's not essential to my argument. In any case, information is abstracted from observations of the physical. That a vacuum doesn't contain information is sufficient for my purposes.
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It's not actually true that vacuum doesn't contain information. According to GR, empty space contains information in the form of metric tensor. According to QM, vacuum if full of "virtual particles" that go in and out of existence.
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