Post #2512616
2025-09-26 22:40 UTC
@atlas667@mastodon.social @mdcory@mastodon.social @tao@mathstodon.xyz
Multicellular bodies are possible precisely because they do not conform to any of the basic axioms of social systems. The reason a body can "operate as one" is that the trillions of units that constitute it have no free will, no conflicting objective functions. They are hardware, driven by an operating system hardwired into DNA.
Human society, on the other hand, is a distributed network composed of N sovereign users running independent operating systems.
You are mistakenly drawing an analogy between a computer's internal bus and the entire internet's TCP/IP protocol. This is a category error.
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@atlas667@mastodon.social 2025-09-27 07:31
@linrui@mathstodon.xyz @mdcory@mastodon.social @tao@mathstodon.xyz You've left materialism. There is no primary conscious center, or a soul. Consciousness is the body, its parts. Free will is a slippery and irrelevant concept. You are the sum experience of your body. This is encoded for your cells; you. Humans are not running wholly independent OS's. Not only do we share similar material bases, this makes us share similar needs. In our OS's is our distributed nature. You fail to see that the internet is a bunch of computers.