the internet told me radical honesty about ourselves is good that is why today i am proud to come out as a vague collection of particles whose identity as an object is entirely a perceptual artifact yet which has a subjective point of view for absolutely no discernible reason
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Replying to @chaosprime
you have a subjective view because it allows for an versatile IPC bus to be implemented in a neurobiological substrate, and was thus selected for. It may very well be not the first time evolution produces this capability (dep. on how well ant mirror test results replicate)
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enh no apparent reason why the same system without qualia wouldn’t work just as well, or why the system inescapably produces qualia
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Have you read Blindsight by Peter Watts?
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Replying to @stevenhalter @0K_ultra
no, i know i have to and i have bought it as a result
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You bought it? The book is free my dude!
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the text maybe
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