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Of or related to consciousness - the state of being self-aware.

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My main character has access to the entire knowledge of humanity (note: This is year 4000s so they have much more than "our humanity"). He created another consciousness for himself; this new ...
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I have a situation where the military generals and high leadership are mind-uploaded, AI reconstructed philosophers and brilliant strategists of historical times. I can't, however, figure out how the ...
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In my science fiction story, there is an extraordinarily powerful species of alien that can teleport humans. They do this by disassembling a person's body into molecules or atoms and simultaneously ...
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Picture this: An AI has taken over the world with the directive "keep humans alive while trying to maximize both their happiness and efficiency of resource utilization." Unfortunately, it ...
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So it turns out the dualists are right. There is a material world of atoms, rocks, gravity and photons....but there exists an immaterial spiritual realm of information, gods, and cognition. But here's ...
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What I’m trying to figure out is if your body is replaced with synthetic parts (my civilization has the technology to do that as well as bioengineering and cloning technology), at what point do you ...
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Edit: It has come to my attention that "Critical Flicker Frequency" only applies to vision, but the perception of time of animals is measured by this method and i didn't know how to phrase ...
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I have some androids in my story who seem like individuals with personalities, but they all have the same task, which is to collect matter and energy as they colonize space. They have the programming ...
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My question is how/why does my creature evolve into having arms when it has none? Context: I am currently creating a evolutionary tree for the first animals of my planet. My planet is the size of ...
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I am working on a sci-fi story and need a way to clone a person, body and mind. I also want it to be done without "far future technology" where anything goes. I want it to be simple and ...
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My story involves a sapient swarm intelligence, which I've detailed in a previous question here. I'd like to ask an additional question that is related but different from my original post: Is it ...
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My story involves a sapient swarm intelligence, which I've detailed in a previous question here. I'd like to ask an additional couple questions that are related but different from my original post: ...
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I'd like to use a story with a sapient swarm intelligence because I find the idea interesting, but I'm having trouble developing some of the finer details of how this intelligence would interact with ...
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In my world, a doctor needs a reliable way to kill a human quickly and painlessly. The original concept on how to do this involved the use a long spike extending into each side of the head and ...
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Follow up to this question: What would prevent an eldritch deity from gaining the abilities of others that it absorbs? Nyarlathotep, the Black Pharaoh, seeks to enter the realm of Earth to rule over ...
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