what is it like to be a hard drive?
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I remember, as a kid, balking at a Frank Herbert story in which stars were conscious.
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thinking about the consciousness of things that live at vastly different time scales than humans is difficult. fungi and plants are already hard to accept, but with stars you're stretching it out to billions of times longer time scale than anything human-like.
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for plants a day is a breath and a year is a day. what is a star's breath?
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the substrate of stellar consciousness is millions of nuclear fusion reactions per second so they have spectacular processing power, they don't notice us because we're so slow
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and what are they doing with all that processing power? 'mining' heavy elements?
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constructing elaborate fictional worlds and beaming their ongoing stories into the universe *for free*, they're incredibly generous of spirit
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all lies. They tell you that at first, but in the end they all turn into bottomless frigid vortexes sucking the life out of everything.
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Not all stars turn into black holes, most of them turn into grey dwarfs which continue to shine over trillions of years before gradually fading. And black holes can be the energy sources for type II civilizations orbiting them. Stars are inherently benevolent beings.
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