The substance / structure point is fascinating. It gives us four quadrants. Natural Substance, Natural Structure: Humans, dogs, ants, bacteria. Natural Subst

The substance / structure point is fascinating. It gives us four quadrants. Natural Substance, Natural Structure: Humans, dogs, ants, bacteria. Natural Substance, Artificial Structure: enslaved living neurons (like the human brain cells that play pong 24/7), or perhaps a hypothetical GPT-5 made out of actual neurons instead of Nvidia chips. Artificial Substance, Natural Structure: if you replace each of your neurons with a functional equivalent made out of titanium... would you cease to be conscious? At what point? Artificial substance, Artificial structure: GPT etc., but also my refrigerator, which also has inputs (current temp), goals (maintain temp within range), and actions (turn cooling on/off). The game SOMA by Frictional (of Amnesia fame!) goes into some depth on this subject.