0x01 The Architects of the Merge [3:24]

0x05 The Humans Transcending [3:20]

0x06 Join Us! [3:29]

Marshall McLuhan said that our electric age is an extension of the nervous system just as the wheel was an extension of the foot and clothes the extension of the skin. He also (this was in the 60s mind you) talked about how the west was re tribalizing, going back into "acoustic space" of the global village. In this sense, AI is just a continuation of this. Asking AI is perhaps like asking a village elder. It's not really sure why, but the elder said so, so let's go with it. This is best listened to in a transitional brain state, like perhaps at a Thai massage.

That would mixx epicly into a trance beat set!

Good questions! 1.) There is a substrate, but they are two layers of complex systems (and emergent behavior) removed from it. Neuronal connections are biological, they generate consciousness (for simplicity, let's consider it "what we perceive") and then on top of that live memebionts. You can always go all the way down to biology and physics (and up to hypergraphs if you will:), but the fact that it is an emergent property of a complex system (which is an emergent property of another complex system, and waayy down) makes it distinct imho. Memebionts are not consciousness that runs on neurons, it is a form of life that runs on many conscious beings forming culture (one way up). 2.) Producing energy - if it is captivating enough for the consciousness to spend energy making it spread and alive. Religions, at least the ones that survived, are quite metabolically efficient - they cause the lower layer of the complex system to go to churches and temples and people spend time with the memebionts, spreading it, making it grow, making use of the substrate quite efficiently. "My" random idea that I told a friend is a memebiont that does not have a good metabolism, it caused only one person (me) to spread it and then it did not metabolize enough energy to spread, or to even live in the other person's head.