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by unfunco 3571 days ago
> It's a lot of electrons moving about

The actual weather is also a lot of electrons moving about.

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Sure, in part, but we don't consider weather systems to be running simulations.

Although Jaron Lanier wrote a paper on treating a meteor shower as a simulated computer running simulated minds to make a point about consciousness.