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Re:Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI ... by pixl97 on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:12PM (#35574081)
Some things will never be explained... for example what's the last digit of 22/7, and why out of all fractions around it that that particular number decides to extend towards infinity.

Reality can be unsatisfying because it does not owe us explanations.

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Re:Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI ... by anongraddebt on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:35AM (#35580069)
The degree of ‘needing’ to explain consciousness is basically the inverse of the degree of ‘needing’ to explain what the last digit of 22/7 is. Hardly anyone talks about or does anything with the latter, whereas the reality of the former pervades - quite literally - nearly everything humans do and think about.

I mean, you experienced the reality of consciousness while talking about the last digit of 22/7.

If there is anything in our world that needs explaining it’s consciousness.

Reality doesn’t owe us an explanation of consciousness (obviously). We owe it to ourselves though.

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