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by godelski 631 days ago
Maybe that'll be the first way, but there's nothing special about biology.

Remember, we don't have a rigorous definition of things like life, intelligence, and consciousness. We are narrowing it down and making progress, but we aren't there (some people confuse this with a "moving goalpost" but of course "it moves", because when we get closer we have better resolution as to what we're trying to figure out. It'd be a "moving goalpost" in the classic sense if we had a well defined definition and then updated in response to make something not work, specifically in a way that is inconsistent with the previous goalpost. As opposed to being more refined)

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The something special about biology is it uses much less energy than a network of power-hungry graphics cards!
No one denies that. But there's no magic. The real baffling thing is that people refuse to pick up a neuroscience textbook