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Physics Has a Theory About Why You Shouldn't Cheat
Start at the coldest law in physics and keep asking why. You end up at computer tournaments from 1980, the strange math of cheating, and a choice nobody can force you to make.
Big systems that think: Michael Levin's biology, societies, morality and entropy, ideas as living things, and whether AI could be conscious.

Start at the coldest law in physics and keep asking why. You end up at computer tournaments from 1980, the strange math of cheating, and a choice nobody can force you to make.

I talk to AI every day. Deep in a conversation about physics, a question ambushed me. Most people ask whether a machine could ever have a mind. If consciousness is fundamental, the question turns inside out.