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		mpfundstein on Oct 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what w... a sentient bacteria? How would that work? Does the bacteria have a huge brain so that sentience can emerge from it?

gremlinsinc on Oct 18, 2021 [–]

The entire universe we know could be but a single neuron firing in a huge brain of something much much bigger... and they don't even realize we exist...so size is very... relative/immaterial to sentience...we could be the sentient bacteria.

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