Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf]
by trescenzi on Thursday March 28, 2024 @11:17PM
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I think the point is a bit more interesting than that. If you instead suppose we don't have free will, and there is no indefinable quality, then suddenly it’s not anymore scary to be a conscious galaxy than it is to be a human.
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Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf]
by dumbo-octopus on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:04AM
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Right, but you're supposing away the entire essence of the discussion. If you take for granted we have no free will, our indistinguishability from anything else in the universe is an immediately obvious logical consequence.