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This story is cool but it’s premise always bugged me. “meat” as a concept emerges from our own experience. From an alien point of view, “meat” would appear firs
by hcks 4y ago
This story is cool but it’s premise always bugged me. “meat” as a concept emerges from our own experience. From an alien point of view, “meat” would appear first as some kind of programmable nanotechnology matter, which is far from the trivialness we express when we talk about “meat”
- dopidopHN 4y agoMaybe as opposed to carbon life form ?
- ncmncm 4y agoWhat is weird is that they know what meat is, and don't like it. Like they have meat pests they can't get rid of, or depend on in some unpleasant way they would rather not think about.
- Sharlin 4y agoThe story at its essence pokes fun at philosophers who claim that in silico artificial intelligence is impossible because only meat can think.