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   on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 02:32:22 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
   > “ I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
   
   Max Planck, interestingly enough
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     Mr Funk 🇦🇺 (sophistifunk@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 14:50:39 JST Mr Funk 🇦🇺

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     @lain consciousness seems to be a computation, which means it has a caloric cost. That we have it means it’s either a requirement for something else we do, or simply an emergent side-effect of certain forms of computation itself.

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