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Of or related to consciousness - the state of being self-aware.

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What brain parts and processes are most plausibly able to a second incorporeal brain-like or...

mind you can riff on well trod themes involving the right and left brains and their division of labor and specialties without falling into cliches or established camps of thinking as regards our divided consciousness
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What would a modern civilization look like if they aren't allowed to write?

Songs. Do you wonder why you, a not particularly musical person, can hum the tune of thousands of different songs you have heard on the radio or in church? Why an average person can remember the lyr …
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How can I prevent an oracle who can see into the past from knowing everything that has happe...

/I need to limit this system to the big moves and shakes of history./ Signal strength increases with number of participants. Imagine flying along at 10,000 feet. You cannot see a man lighting his c …
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A sentient "eusocial" swarm and maintaining communication

They flicker with light. Each of your swarm units flickers with light. By light I mean an enormous range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Just as a laser in an optic cable can transmit enormous amo …
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Coexisting with a sapient swarm intelligence

It will have to do with resources: those desired by the hive and those desired by humans. If the hive intelligence wants resources that humans want, then we will come into conflict. That is why human …
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How do animals evolve to have arms

You work with what you have got. Thanks to my associate Mushi for illustrating the concept. Your creature has perfectly good appendages. It evolves hands from its feet. Where do you think our hand …
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