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Re:How to Build Conscious Machines by verisimi on Sunday June 15, 2025 @04:17AM (#44281208)
The step from 1 to 2, rock to hard coding (protozoan) assumes life. There's no way I would describe hard coding as life.
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Re:How to Build Conscious Machines by pengstrom on Sunday June 15, 2025 @06:35AM (#44281583)
Does it assume life, or are the qualities that makes an organism act in spite of us, and agency, one and the same?
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