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Edit: by background chatter I mean the noise from all the other conversations happening in the moment nearby
It just changes the noun brick into a verb. So if a laptop has bricked, it means it’s like a brick now (useless)
Silicon Valley culture sometimes man...
So then that just means everything is alive
Which I also agree with
Energy is life. Life is energy.
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ya it totally makes sense those with more traditional family values spend more of their life in real life. working for a defense contractor is an interesting idea. thanks for the links i'm going to check them out
By immaterial experience or phenomenon in this case I mean qualia
"Examples of qualia include the perceived sensation of pain of a headache, the taste of wine, as well as the redness of an evening sky" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
You can tell me the hue of the sky, the brightness, etc, but that's completely different from your actual perceived experience of the sky, which is what consciousness is
Another quote: "what it is like to taste a specific apple, this particular apple now"
The result of conceptualizing and abstracting different domains is in as much of a Wild West as it’s ever going to be today.
This reminds me I wanted to research about the theory of marketplaces to understand better how can we improve the market of reusable software components. By that I mean improving the process that we actually use to find and use or create and distribute reusable software components.
Their surveillance and manipulation practices are gonna land a lot of people in huge trouble