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Their wordsI have written a lot about the fact that biological systems, like us, are basically collective intelligences.
Their wordsI expect, but can't prove (although I bet someone could) that due to Gödel and Turing limits, we could never definitively prove that we were part of a larger system with significant cognition.
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The miracle of sentience and the beauty of life in the universe also involves a lot of suffering.
Their wordsI think so, yes. I don't see any way to gloss over the fact that the miracle of sentience and beauty of life in the universe also involves a lot of suffering.
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