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Re:Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher... by WillAdams on Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:37PM (#36460173)
There's a lot of science fiction which touches on this --- notable things:

- Heinlein's _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ which has already been mentioned

- Harry Harrison's _The Turing Option_ (with forward by Marvin Minsky): https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1807642

- Victor Milán's _The Cybernetic Samurai_ which is notable for a major character in it has the afore-mentioned Heinlein as a favorite book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/472944

Biology is _incredibly_ efficient in terms of energy usage --- it's rather striking to me that the a single query of early iterations of ChatGPT were so demanding that Microsoft was able to put a prize on them and monetize them so as to get their stake in the company.

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