Intelligence is organized matter.

I believe this, and all the weird--ethical?--implications.

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Earlier, Bruce's Inflation (cosmic) thread had me thinking-- the universe was too hot for atoms to form, for 380,000 years. That's a long time-- long enough for matter, such as it was, to organize into intelligence? Could it have survived, evolved, adapted to a cooling universe, become embedded in the later, more structured matter that was to form? Or, as a rare form of intelligent matter inside the hot soup of exotic stars?

Could things like the unexplained disparity between matter and anti-matter constitute a conscious decision by the universe, or pockets of conscious agency within large chunks of the universe? Kind of like, a huge de-centralized "slime mold" ??

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What if intelligence is the default state of matter, and we've been grossly mis-classifying what intelligence is?

Slime mold is smarter than most people? Yeah, I'll buy that. :yesnod:

I'll have what flint's having.

I'll buy it, though I tend toward the reverse perspective: it's not that the universe is as smart as we are, it's that we're as dumb as slime molds.

We've been assimilated.
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Naaaaaaaaaaaaaw.

Yes, agreed. Not specified in my original post is my militant anti-anthropomorhic perspective. We are an illogical yardstick with which to measure anything against.

it may just be a matter of scale. we may be too small to see the overarching intelligence at work around us.

A-couple-of-days-ago IL ÷ is called an obelus, and TIL use ALT + 246 to type it.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journ...037537669B4B7#

Poop Particles

I've been telling you about poop molecules for years

I thought that had been poo pooed

But hospitals use commercial toilets that flush much more violently than home toilets with a tank. They will stir up a lot more aerosols than yours, and the little yours does kicks up keeps your immune system healthy. If you don't feel your toilet is kicking up enough poop particles scrub the toilet with your toothbrush. :blush:

I clean my Bathroom and don't worry about it.

Today I learned that the word Pączki has a little squiggle on the a, and that squiggle is called an ogonek. Pronunciation of pączki is something like "poonch-key", and the ogonek (which means little tail in Polish) nasalizes the vowel sound.

For the uninitiated, pączkis are a Polish thing - filled heavy donuts eaten on Fat Tuesday, big in Detroit environs -centered around Hamtramck -people will commute quite some distance to get genuine Hamtramck pączkis

Damn it Monster, between the sliced turkey and the grapes is a vast wasteland of baked Sirens calling dieters to their doom. I have never browsed the section and have no trouble resisting the Siren's call. But today, there was a small table all by it's lonesome near the grapes. This scandalous table piled high with...

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It says Lemon, I couldn't tell, it was just cloying sweet.
The label say each one is 310 calories, 300 from fat.
Hard to believe there is less than 10 calories of sugar.