• Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      It’s so weird thinking about how we’re just copying DNA. That’s pretty much the purpose of life; replicate these strange molecules as much as possible. Consciousness is some unintended byproduct of the ‘copy forever’ algorithm.

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        8 hours ago

        And the contents of the information being copied is basically a recepie for building a machine that can make copies of the information needed to build that machine…