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If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious

35 points · 103 comments · ashergill

robinpie · 1789739035 · focus · HN ↗
The author frames this as "either accept this highly counterintuitive result, or take it as a reason to doubt materialism, or find a principled criterion that excludes entities like this" but honestly this doesn't really strike me as highly counterintuitive

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