10-27-2018, 01:04 PM
Here is a problem. If I give you a series of 100 numbers starting randomly in such a constant as e, pi. or the Golden Ratio, I have information. Does such information have consciousness? On the other hand, it would be theoretically possible (if practically absurd) to get the data on the location of every atom in a human body and put those atoms together in the form of a person who has the identity of another person. One can obviously get consciousness out of information if it exists in a way that creates the a life.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.