not saying you have to accept these definitions but if you do, lots of things i say will be extremely accurate and useful, and if you don't, lots of things i say will be absolute nonsense that will lead you into ruinous error if credited
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Demons inhabit gene machines and gods inhabit meme machines?
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nah, they both live in both and a gene is just a slow moving meme anyway
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Also, doesn't this mean that if two demons can agree to coordinate their processes they become a god
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if they're on different substrates, yes
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So, "cognitive process" has some easily accessible meanings, but what exactly does it mean to you?
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idk if i can really communicate it, but something in the neighborhood of "ongoing self-modifying transformation of information"
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can u define computer substrate for someone unfamiliar with these terms
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compute substrate, not computer; a physical medium that performs computation. the quickest shorthand example for the kind of substrate most relevant here is "a brain", though that also encodes error; human computation is concentrated in the brain but not exclusive to it
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Eerily correspondent to my favorite passage from The Screwtape Lettershttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/582528-one-must-face-the-fact-that-all-the-talk-about …
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How did this happen chaos guy
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