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I just finished Blood Music by Greg Bear. Very interesting. It is one of the earliest science fiction novels about nanotechnology. It also deals with AI (alternative intelligence). It reminded me of Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment, that posits Von Neumann machine based AI is incapable of awareness. It may create the illusion thereof, but the physical underpinnings just are not capable of consciousness.
Applying that to current events, LLMs may underlie the faking of consciousness but not the real thing.
The AI in this novel has no such limitations.

Blood Music required more determination to finish than Moving Mars, but it is well worth the effort.

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https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/12/03/what-is-man-that-thou-art-mindful-of-him/
As messed up as the human race is, I am sometimes inspired by what we've been able to learn about existence.
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