Post #2173647

2026-05-07 00:17 UTC

@ana I also just feel like computers work differently from brains? So even if they achieve sentience, they would just be different? I guess I don't understand the obsession with comparing all other intelligence to that of people as though humans are *it.* there are tons of animals out there and they're intelligent, and they're just living their best life out there. We still don't understand their minds. Why do we assume we would understand this any better? Why can't it just live its best life?

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@ana@starlite.rodeo 2026-05-07 00:29

@secretsloth totally. we're constantly assuming that our brains are just slightly more complicated versions of the most advanced machines we've created up to that point and we're always wrong because there is so much we don't understand at all

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@Tamtam@mastodon.de 2026-05-09 19:45

@secretsloth@mastodon.art @ana@starlite.rodeo animals minds are evolutionary linked to ours. Same biology. We share tons of genes. Contrary to common belief, our brains are not at all similar to computers. We don't process or store information. We do something much more obscure and holistic, that no scientist yet fully understands. But it has nothing to do with binaries. Also we have kinds of intelligence in all our bodyparts and organs. Feelings. Electromagentic currents. Information.

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