It's all cognition down to the cell and below. Still, panpsychism is bollocks (it's structural coupling of in/out not some mysterious property) and your chatbot has no subjective experience.
Kevin Kelly reread his 1994 book Out of Control and found today's AI hiding in its pages: neural nets are exactly the bottom-up, decentralized, emergent systems he described 32 years ago. His one regret is the title.
In germany we have a legal equivalent of a warning letter with associated cost. There's a whole shady business practice around it, i've been a victim of such a thing twice. Google "Abmahnung".
What you are hearing is a thousand shady german lawyers spring into gear.
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Kevin Kelly wrote Out of Control in 1994, a sprawling study of emergence, hive minds, and bottom-up systems that arrived before the web and got mostly ignored in the US.…
What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system.
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L'Rain / Show Me The Body / Chat Pile / Interpol / Shearwater / Sam Fender / Bleachers / casi / Ho99o9 / Devon Again / Konradsen / Exiter / Sylvan Esso and many more.
"The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results. Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams...
[A]t Google's scale, it means millions of wrong answers every hour"
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
If a rock could tell a story, this ones a whole book. A Gaussian splat of part of a rock. f/11, 1/160s, 114 perspectives with 62 stacked photos each. 5.0 M splats. Check out the interactive version đŸ‘‡
Across living systems, cells use oscillations to encode and transmit information. Calcium is a universal signalling molecule, also found in Physarum.
But in Physarum, oscillations are not only intracellular. The whole body pulses. Rhythmic contractions drive flows and reshape the organism.
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The hard-boiled detective can be defined by three traits: cynicism born from wartime experience, a philosophical approach to their experiences, an endless curiosity that makes them unable to stop asking questions. In the Big Lebowski these traits are split between Walter, the Dude and Donnie
