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From Norms, Networks, and Trails by Adrian Cussins
If the ‘rules’ don’t pre-empt what is properly possible in the ‘game’, then the ‘rules’ become part of what is negotiated by the ‘players’. If the ‘rules’ become part of what is negotiated by the ‘players’, then we end up with the comical but also absurd activity [...]

From What is it like to be a Thermostat? by David Chalmers.
What Lloyd’s approach brings out is that when we try to isolate the kind of processing that is required for conscious experience, the requirements are remarkably hard to pin down, and a careful analysis does not throw up processing criteria that are more than [...]

We are quite close to having internet everywhere.
I am always please to see people walking around with cell phones in hand or fussing with an iPod, because it shows just how accustomed we have become to having small portable connected devices around us at all times. These devices don’t just make calls or play [...]