It’s useful to think of that column of 86,400,000 numbers plus some meta-information is a virtual person attached to the physical device. The richer and more varied the data, the more it needs to be digested and summarized in reified models to be legible at all.
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Galaxy brain version: you’re *already* a data-person yourself. A particular idiosyncratic theory of personhood populated by data streams from about 100-250 lbs of biomass. That you are you is just one opinion about the nature of that mass.https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-an-individual-biology-seeks-clues-in-information-theory-20200716/ …
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Thomas Nagle, 1974: What is it like to be a bat? Me, 2020: How fo you know you’re not a lichen? A data-ghost of 3 or more beings that just thinks it’s one person
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See also... this idea is becoming more popular by the decade.https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-understand-cells-tissues-and-organisms-as-agents-with-agendas …
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