I enjoy tea. I feel the buoying of my mood from the caffeine and a slight tingle in my mind, like my thoughts are filled with potential. The thoughts are still under control, there is just an undertone

A person is placed under general anesthesia and - using some form of unknown phlebotenum - an exact replica is made. The replica has all of the original’s memories, personality traits, and is exactly like

At the moment, a person's occupation is a means to survive, through  the acquisition of money which is used to pay for sustenance, a place to  live, and peripheral desires.  The acquisition

If the brain is simply the substrate for our form of sentient information, then it stands to reason that any other substrate of sufficient complexity may give rise to sentience. All that it requires is

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