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Your brain is a network. How does your entangled fatty tissue achieved consciousness?

I think that until we can answer this question in the authoritative way ruling out non-brain based consciousness concept is not particularly well thought thought - after all plants exhibit communication and response mechanisms that are similar to those in animals - without brain.

So what's your theory of consciousness and how does it preclude absolutely everything except wetware you generously include? :)


>How does your entangled fatty tissue achieved consciousness?

It doesn't. Humans aren't conscious. Nor are any other organisms. They don't have souls either, but that goes without saying since it's just an archaic synonym. Mostly this occurs because humans have painted themselves into corners morally-speaking, and they need justification to eat bacon or grow their population. And apparently "because we can and we want to" isn't the correct solution.

We'll never be able to "answer the question" because it is an absurd question on its face. "Where do we find the magical brain ghosts making us special" presupposes there is something to be found, and a negative answer proves only that we haven't looked hard enough.

>after all plants exhibit communication and response mechanisms that are similar to those in animals - without brain.

Were that line of inquiry followed to its inevitable conclusion, there would be a mass vegan suicide to look forward to.


Exactly, from the very start.

They specifically refused to do it, which is very meh and in retrospect reads like Codex astroturfing because of that ("all AI bad except for Codex"?

For emergency communication? Iridium, zoleo, JS8Call, packet radio.

Not LORA.


Halow works though.

Or maybe they have one of the millions of reason to not want to talk with the strangers.

World is not your amusement park, people are entitle to NOT wanting to talk to you as much as you feel entitled to talk with everyone.


> World is not your amusement park

That's literally what the world is. It's the amusement park for all of us. Some of us like sharing our joy with others. It's up to you whether you are open to receiving it.


the flasher's fallacy

Consent is still necessary. People's opening line when talking to strangers should indicate whether the other consents or not.

Especially if you keep in mind some get a low single digits through their life, so every single one matters.

Are you saying that opening a food thermos is equivalent to cooking a dog in the microwave?

If the safety feature is THAT simple and the lack of thereof literally costs people eyes, why wouldn't that be expectation?!

How long is the piece of the string?

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