culpritus

Capitalism was the paperclip maximizer all along?

Did you see the recent video on spider cognition research? Very interesting how they are able to perform complex behaviors with a very minimal set of neural bio matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_QF6kaOAuYg

Your question about number of cells to make a thought brought it to mind.

There's a new study that seems to indicate octopuses can experience the fake limb illusion. I'm not sure the quality of the research and methods, but the fake limb illusion definitely seems like an interesting example case for this discussion.

I think of it as consciousness modeling the internal/external states of being. Qualia might be a black box, but it has interfaces. I think sensory deprivation hallucination provides some backing to this interpretation. Without the sense data reaching the interfaces, the internal states and external states diverge in unpredictable ways because the consciousness has no way to continuously relate them over time. I'm probably leaning on the computer metaphor a bit much here, but it's the best reference frame I could think of right now.

welcome to the party

Andy Warhol meets with his team of lawyers to discuss lawsuits from trademark owners.

Free Fridge CPC

what do you mean the USSR was not imperialist?!?! They MARCHED on BERLIN!!!

no free loader is going to use my shoulders for themselves, anyway back to creating proprietary SaaS products from libre projects

:this: needs to be an animated emoji

Saw this on the wiki page about it:

One of the alleged shooters, whose home in Bonnyrigg was raided by police, was known to ASIO but had been deemed 'not an immediate threat'.

From the wording in the article this seems like it is mostly to prevent software/data disclosure requirements for mil contractors. Guessing Palantir etc are the origin of this because losing proprietary exclusivity would be bad for the stock valuations.