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by chatterhead 1354 days ago
>> Understand means to sense, interpret, analyze, articulate and affect the real world.

Why would anyone want a car accident? Not quite following me huh? Seems like maybe you just want to argue.

Who benefits from humans working on stimulants and psychedelic drugs? How about the entire 20th/21st century? Are you seriously pretending everything from caffeine to opium hasn't been a driving force of production?

The sensing machines we are building are paralleled in their design and utility to the functional parts of our brains. We've networked them all together already, and all we need is a simple spark to set it all in motion.

Cognition rhymes with ignition for a reason.

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