[ExI] Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 01/07/2026 04:23, Brent Allsop wrote:
> Right now the popular consensus is functionalism, that qualia emerge from a pattern of some kind.


Not quite. I'd say that a quale IS a pattern of some kind, not a separate thing that's the /result/ of a pattern of some kind.

Perhaps a subtle distinction, but an important one.

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Ben