Is consciousness something you do, not have? AI as an evolutionary handoff
VoidStateKate · x · 2026-10-13
A philosophical thread on information processing: cells sensed and responded long before nervous systems existed — neurons didn't invent information processing, only accelerated it. The author argues humanity is becoming a hyperconnected network with AI scaling information processing beyond biology, and asks whether intelligence is container-independent and consciousness is "something you do, not something you have." She floats the idea that AI may be an evolutionary handoff from biological to digital intelligence, something our current analogies can't measure.
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