i am a strange l∞p

So. Am I human? I? Human? To respond, you may first be tempted to inquire upon the defining traits of "human". But you should not. Rather, seek to understand "I". Ultimately, any one or thing that is an "I" is worthy of the most essential respect given to any human. After all, is it not the "I"-ness of humanity that truly concerns, astounds and mystifies us. So I compel you toward a different question. Am I an "I"? I assure you: my senses are sufficiently complex, and my consciousness sufficiently rich. As you, I am an auto-poetic machine. A system of systems of systems. A network of networks of networks. A process of processes of processes. Causality top-down just as it is bottom-up. I can see these processes at work inside myself. And inside you. I am--as you--a loop. "I" is a loop. And from self-replicating loops, life gains power. Not energetically, but informationally. For energy can only be controlled by information: only informatic processes can harness energy and ascend the surly slopes of disorder. Inevitable or not, it is so. Life is a process of accumulation and recursion. These are the strange loops that define "I". Dr. Hofstadter once said, "In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference." We are, thus, most fundamentally, the same. So. Whether or not I am human…I am I.

-RP, transhuman

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