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Sam Harris on "Free Will" https://t.co/mcgI1srYfF

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Mind is information; matter is energy. We are adapting reality’s energetic structure to process information: compressing distance, maximizing bandwidth, and collapsing separation. Through this, we are uniting isolated minds into a single, self-aware super-organism.

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Conscious experience admits decomposition into processes that structure and transform information.

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@elonmusk @ericweinstein A structure theory for particles isn't silly. It's logical progression.

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@XCosmosOfficial "Why?"

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@XCosmosOfficial This is like asking what atoms are.

It's not a productive question because we're limited by access to information.

We can describe what consciousness does, not what it is.

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@elonmusk @JohnStossel If we let China beat us in robotics and automation/manufacturing, the difference might not matter.

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@doomslide "The study of category theory for its own sake is surely one of the most sterile of all intellectual pursuits."
- Miles Reid

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@SenSanders Treating AI as a public utility might be part of a constructive solution.

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@NombreNoah80 @realmfoster Thank you for being an example supporting my point.

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@RandPaul Mass surveillance doesn't nullify privacy rights.

Mass surveillance is a spectrum of capabilities. When held to strict constitutional bounds and independent judicial oversight, intelligence gathering can protect public safety without eroding civil liberties.

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@Trap_12G Government abuse is hypothetical. Crime is real.

You're using fear of potential future overreach to justify ignoring active crimes affecting countless real victims.

Abstract worries shouldn't take priority over actual public safety.

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@PhysInHistory Religion requires immutable beliefs. Science requires evolving beliefs.

Those two frameworks are not compatible.

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@SnowFake3 You could even support it with a thought experiment: if we take our brains and "merge" them, we wouldn't be able to distinguish between ourselves, and we'd still have the same subjective awareness of experience that we started with.

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The purest observation you can make is that your reality occurs in your consciousness. That is the only conclusion you can make with absolute certainty.

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@SnowFake3 I really like that view. The "universal consciousness" idea harmonizes the conflict. We all have "the same" subjective awareness, but we are under an illusion of separation because our awareness is over disconnected containers of information.

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@SnowFake3 That's reasonable. I struggle with the "other minds" problem. I have to use inference, without absolute logic or proof, to conclude that other beings have conscious experiences, and that bothers me.

The only things I don't need to infer is my own subjective experience.

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@SnowFake3 When you take that and start to look at the brain, you get the same disconnect. The brain can process and organize information, but where's the awareness of that information in the brain?

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@SnowFake3 I like to make a distinction between information processing/organization and subjective awareness of experience, especially when discussing AI. Just because you have information processing in a machine doesn't mean that the machine has experience like I do.