The internet is a good surrogate for libraries, especially with cheap PCs, laptops and smartphones.

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Impressive. I wonder what Sabine Hossenfelder would say about those 72 new hadrons.

We are inmersed in info from energy collected by enhanced sensory systems. So far the success of integrating this info so that it makes sense is promising due to increasing the amount and quality of the info that enable a few useful interpretations between pure questions. It seems the only way.

Are you sure that's a sign of suffering? I don't remember that kind of pain and I've never heard of it from anyone else.

I understand that bcs I am 84. How would a newborn baby say that? Or isn't it not yet able to suffer pain?

Pre-verbal or proto-verbal, do you mean?

Didn't we hear that before, after the capitulation of Japan on September 2, 1945?

It's my paraphrase of Carl Sagan's quote, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

Internal/external is a false dichotomy here. Parts of the Universe intercept information of the Universe and interprete that as external, and itself as internal. There is nothing but the Universe.

For me this proves that John Searles' Chinese room could actually work.

That's one way of putting it. It's indistinguishable from the Americans not possessing very high standards.

A constitution cannot guarantee morality if people are allowed to behave irrationally. I see no solution for that.