@puellavulnerata @okayultra Viruses can have vastly smaller genetic payloads than the cells they hijack.
@okayultra @puellavulnerata @St_Rev and is there a sense in which a nation-state exists that isn't the same sense in which Blorb exists?
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@okayultra@chaosprime I have no idea what 'USA-Conscious paper' is so I'm not bloody well referencing it -
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@okayultra@chaosprime seems like a troll against materialism. -
@St_Rev@okayultra maybe! idk that it's wrong, though, at least if we note that there are lots of barely-conscious forms of consciousness. -
@chaosprime@okayultra "are viruses alive?" questions like this useless except to the extent they tell us to interrogate our terms -
@chaosprime@okayultra 'consciousness', like 'agency', is a cheap way to contextualize the behavior of entropy-climbing systems
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