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8 underwears, 8 tshirts, 8 pairs of socks, 2 jorts, 2 pants, 2 hoodies, 1 jacket, 1 pair of sandals, 1 pair of shoes, 1 backpack, 1 carryon bag, 1 hat, 1 beanie.
This is roughly my current load out and assumes weekly laundry.
The lede:
Albert Newen and Carlos Montemayor describe consciousness as consisting of three forms, each serving a distinct purpose: 1. basic arousal, 2. general alertness, and 3. reflexive (self-)consciousness.
What I find really useful about breaking apart the purpose of consciousness like this is that we can imagine evolving from simpler forms of consciousness to more advanced forms.
This got me wanting to write out my hypothesis for how we evolve their most advanced consciousness purpose, self-consciousness. Excuse me.
I like to think of self-consciousness as recursion where your cognitive processes are an input to your cognitive processes. In computer science, tail recursion can be used to create loops, loops are required for turing completeness, and machines that want complex and competitive behavior will be turing complete. So it makes sense that brains would sometimes evolve to process a series of stimuli using recursion and then eventually use that recursive ability to process itself as if it were stimuli.
Or try caramelized onions.
Found a decent reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/comments/acrd3i/what_if_dark_matter_was_dyson_spheres/
If I wanted it to be any good, I'd have to explain the lack of infrared light and many other things. I'd have to become a dark matter aficionado.
I wonder how probable it is that dark energy/matter are just advanced civilizations erecting Dyson spheres and/or some other technology that hides energy and matter.
I think all creatures are machines and machines creatures. Machines are crude creatures relative to human creatures but I don’t think machines will be crude forever. But machines, when creatures, will probably have different vestiges. So I think this question reduces to how attached one is to their heritage, how much their temperament is conservative.
For some reason I confuse facism with merchantilism. Still that might not be the right word to describe the Genesis Project.
I'm not particularly good at it
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My favorite character in Star Trek Voyager is Neelix and you are such a Neelix.
102 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 28 Nov \ parent \ on: Turkey Day thread: what are you cooking? food_and_drinks
The salad was very good. The panna cotta was disappointing sadly