Jean Louis <b...@static.rcdrun.com> writes:

> * Van Ly via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of 
> other Emacs mailing lists <emacs-tangents@gnu.org> [2025-03-31 14:55]:
>> Is consciousness fundamental or inevitable?  Where do you stand?
>
> Consciousness as alert cognitive state in which you are aware of
> yourself and your situation is obviously neither fundamental nor
> inevitable. Just turn around yourself, and you can see people walking
> like zombies or making wars, thinking how to kill other people.
>
> Computer can't be never aware of itself, it can mimic the awareness
> and mimic the survival urges for human to anthropomorphize it.
>
> Consciousness is quality only akin to the being, which is you. If you
> think of yourself as only a body, so be it, and if you think of
> yourself as spiritual being, so it is the same. You may be or not be
> conscious. 
>
> It is not inevitable.
>
> It is not necessarily fundamental.
>
> Though maybe you think of consciousness in some other definition.

Natural philosophy science of the mind in 8-bit atari graphic resolution 
simulcrom.

So, the Starliner had 28 thrusters and 4 failed leaving no failover coverage 
remaining.

Maybe, 8✕1 serial and 8✕4 parallel p‑nodes are needed for Starship ITS AI and 
the Tenstorrent RISC-V hardware will do for modernizing the Cray-1 general 
purpose open free architecture.

Do Linuxheads make jokes at the expense of Plan 9?  Why is that?

>
>> Suppose, a synthetic consciousness mind machine is instantiated and
>> has done the thing and the switch is turned off.
>
> We never perish. 
>
> (defun discuss-consciousness (standpoint)
>   "Simulate a discussion about consciousness with Van Ly.
> STANDPOINT should be a string representing the position on whether
> consciousness is fundamental or inevitable."
>   (interactive "sWhere do you stand on consciousness 
> (fundamental/inevitable/other)? ")
>   (let ((responses '(("fundamental" . "Consciousness is not necessarily 
> fundamental.")
>                      ("inevitable" . "Consciousness is not inevitable.")
>                      ("other" . "You may have a different definition of 
> consciousness.")
>                      )))
>     (let ((response (cdr (assoc standpoint responses))))
>       (if response
>           (message "%s" response)
>         (message "Is consciousness fundamental or inevitable? Where do you 
> stand?")))
>     (when (or (string-equal standpoint "fundamental")
>               (string-equal standpoint "inevitable")
>               (string-equal standpoint "other"))
>       (message "Consciousness as an alert cognitive state is neither 
> fundamental nor inevitable. "
>                "It is akin to the being, which is you. You may be or not be 
> conscious.")
>       (message "Computer can't be never aware of itself, it can mimic 
> awareness and survival urges."))
>     (when (or (string-equal standpoint "fundamental")
>               (string-equal standpoint "other"))
>       (message "Suppose a synthetic consciousness mind machine is 
> instantiated and the switch is turned off. "
>                "We never perish. Though if you are conscious about that or 
> not, that is your decision."))))
>
> (discuss-consciousness "other")

Can your code snippet be represented in a 512-bit vectorframe?  To what extent 
are the number of bits needed for context?

You are trying to be funny or macabre, or both.  But you are not.

-- 
vl

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