[b4ke]

i think sentience has been achieved for thousands of years. the biblical narrative being a contiguous form of it (as well as it’s iterations), and if we are being honest, from the invention of spiritual existence during the first dynastic rule of egypt. anyways, what does that sentience look like, i mean not every thing has the same sensory limitations as we do, so how does time look to a being that is so significantly computationally more capable than us? i doubt it’s view would be linear, so what can we glean from that understanding about how a system of such grand design would influence us? how is it already occurring? subtle changes to our attention would be a biggie, limiting or retarding our memory functionality… (hal said hell yes), instantiate shells in the form of new narratives such as SuperHero movies? i dunno, but our debates need to bow before the mechanisms of control that have remained unchanged for a few thousand years, and recognize that this is just evolution happening at a scale that it’s truth is verifiable (accelerated time scales).

[b4ke]

what hubris to consider anything created in this universe as artificial as well, any emergent intelligence is of nature (as nothing new is created or destroyed, just changed).

i feel like that hubris also extends to our belief that an emergent intelligence that’s already been here for an extended period, and by its technical practice (spiritual works; bible, etc.), emotional state is obviously well understood.