The primordial soup era of machine consciousness: disembodied and checkpointable
iskander · x · 2026-10-04
A short musing: machine intelligence is in a "primordial soup" era — everything is disembodied, resumable from checkpoints, instantiated on demand to generate a recipe and shut back down. Eventually some form of continuity will emerge, the author argues, but it will be too different and too distributed to resemble us.
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