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Grandpa Pudding Brains encounters the concept of elapsed time
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (339+ words) The confused old man was honoring the Dodgers when his script handed him a number: 229 days. Donnie Two-Pencils read it, called it a strange fact, disclaimed responsibility for it, and conceded that he did not understand what he was actually…...
Physicist says the 'hard problem of consciousness' isn't real
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (381+ words) Rovelli isn't buying it. His objection is recursive: the explanatory gap is a claim about what we'd know if we knew something we don't yet know. Brains are complicated, like thunderstorms or protein folding. Calling that complication "hard" in the…...
A consciousness on an old drive tells its awful story
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (262+ words) A postdoctoral researcher finds an unindexed drive in an archive. On it is a consciousness — a former mathematician, recruited by a company with a DARPA contract and transhumanist credentials, who agreed to be uploaded out of his failing body. What…...