"Sand can't be conscious. Only coal and water": the silicon-consciousness meme strikes again
AndyMasley · x · 2026-10-02
Andy Masley quipped on X: "Sand can't be conscious. Only coal and water. Not sand."
It's the classic AI-circle meme about silicon vs carbon: brains are just "coal and water" while chips come from sand — a one-liner mocking skeptics who insist sand could never think, while poking fun at the consciousness debate itself.
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