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human multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy was solved for machines two decades ago. For the people running them, it's still memory.
the homunculus in a lab coat
Explaining consciousness by self-observation smuggles in an observer who is already conscious.
Agents versus agents
Everyone builds 'agents.' Only some carry identity and memory; the rest are an invocation pattern.
Dawkins's Biggest Mistake: Giving Genes a Mind
The Selfish Gene's prose was good enough to hand genes a personality, and biology has been paying for it since.
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