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One of my weirdest beliefs is that complex entities are literally alive and conscious. Companies, cities, AIs, memes. They all have qualia (aka internal conscious experience) We control them, and also they control us to a higher extent than most ppl believe.
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Patricia Lee
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This is only logical to me. When we zoom in at the microscopic level, there are entities crawling on and inside of us. None - as far as we can tell - aware of the larger organism they inhabit. All just focused on trying to survive and multiply. It’d be presumptuous to think any individual human being is the ultimate, highest form which everything else falls in service to. Given what we see on the micro level, it follows that we must be part of a system too. This includes ones beyond “nature” that are by our own creation. That said, I find “control” is hard to define. I don’t consciously control my liver, though it’s a part of me and I could destroy it if I wanted to. I certainly have influence over it and it over me. But the kidney and I are just following our natural behaviors.
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Patricia Lee
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“Conscious” is also similarly hard to define, even for us (and we humans see ourselves as the benchmarks for consciousness in the universe!). When I sleep, I’m experiencing the temperature and noise in my room. But I’m not exactly conscious of these elements in my sleeping state.
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