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If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious

35 points · 103 comments · ashergill

d_theorist · 1789738964 · focus · HN ↗
I only read the abstract, but this sounds a lot like the dust theory from Greg Egan's books.
This is one of the main things that made me seriously doubt my prior assumption that consciousness supervenes over computation.

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