🧠 The Wet Logic of Being: Why Silicon Dreams Can't Wake Up
Episode S6 · Ep 8 31 min 47s

🧠 The Wet Logic of Being: Why Silicon Dreams Can't Wake Up

Send us Fan Mail 📖 Full essay: Evolution spent half a billion years solving the consciousness problem under ruthless metabolic constraints. Maybe we should pay attention to the solution it found rather than assuming our 80-year-old computing paradigm can simply replicate it if we add enough layers. The question isn't whether machines can think—they already do, in ways that matter. The question is whether they can be, in the continuous, integrated, metabolically-embedded way that biologi...

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