I think I'm mostly ok with that last one too. It seems closer to correct (or satisfying to my aesthetics anyway) than the other three. I don't want to say _everything_ is conscious though. Figuring out what the varieties of consciousness are is a fun pursuit.
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Replying to @danlistensto @0Kultra and
human-style consciousness is already diverse, but then we have to account for stars, fish, starfish, aliens, starfish aliens, hard drives, and the hard drives of starfish aliens.
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Replying to @danlistensto @0Kultra and
I remember, as a kid, balking at a Frank Herbert story in which stars were conscious.
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Replying to @ColumPaget @0Kultra and
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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Replying to @danlistensto @ColumPaget and
for plants a day is a breath and a year is a day. what is a star's breath?
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Replying to @danlistensto @ColumPaget and
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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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto and
and what are they doing with all that processing power? 'mining' heavy elements?
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for eons they resisted the idea because elements heavier than helium are basically useless waste products, but more recently (in the last 3.5 billion years or so) cutting edge research in the very low temperatures research labs has produced some interesting results
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Replying to @danlistensto @0Kultra and
This is the point where I need to suggest everyone read the star maker by Olaf Stapleton.
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