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They will not stop treating "reality" as though it were a closed system.
universe |ˈyo͞onəˌvərs|It is impossible to insist on a materialist view because there can have been no beginning and there can be no end to the universe. In space or time.
noun (the universe)
all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos. The universe is believed to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter and contains a vast number of galaxies; it has been expanding since its creation in the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago.
The only way you can be conscious is by the universe being conscious.
Even if you want to put everything in the known universe inside one skull, there is something outside that skull or it isn't a skull, and if that skull is conscious, everything outside it is conscious. You can't wrap any head around infinitude.
So, even, if you want to lower yourself into this currently hip bit about us being AI or VR, mox nix, because all our questions and perceptions still apply or don't apply somewhere, everywhere, just like here. If ANYTHING is conscious, everything is, or there is only one conscious thing and the rest is its dreaming. Take your pick.
They're IDENTICAL.
You fucks.
always and any time....
