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 * file: journal_karbytes_06june2025_p0.txt
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 * date: 06_JUNE_2025
 * author: karbytes
 * license: PUBLIC_DOMAIN
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karbytes_0: "Nature created me in order for me to explore nature and to manipulate nature."

karbytes_1: "Are you insinuating that nature is some kind of intelligent creator and puppet master which intentionally manipulates humans as nature's pawns?"

karbytes_0: "Not exactly. Instead, what I meant to convey is that I was created from multiple intelligent agents behaving in a collaborative manner but without most of those intelligent agents knowing that they were behaving in ways which would ultimately result in my emergence and in the emergence of my self-assigned purpose (which is to explore nature and to manipulate nature)."

karbytes_1: "Are you suggesting that nature is not conscious of everything which is transpiring within it?"

karbytes_0: "Yes. I am suggesting that nature contains multiple information processing agents which are each intelligent to some degree (and that it is not the case that every information processing agent which ever exists is intelligent in the same way as every other information processing agent is). That is because each individual information processing agent is a unique configuration of space, time, mass, and energy (and such is the case even if there exist parallel or non-intersecting universes which appear to be phenomenologically identical to each other). I am also suggesting that nature is itself not an information processing agent. Instead, nature is simply a container of all that ever exists. The container itself is not necessarily an information processing agent. Therefore, the container is not necessarily intelligent (i.e. aware of anything happening inside of it)."

karbytes_1: "In prior conversations we had I recall you saying that you had a panpsychic worldview (and hence believed that nature is fundamentally a single all-encompassing mind and that pure nothingness is literally a single ubiquitous field of consciousness (and therefore intelligence) which spans all universes and which is aware of all phenomena at all times). Have you changed your mind since the last time we had those conversations?"

karbytes_0: "Not necessarily. I posit that it is possible for me to still uphold a panpsychic worldview without requiring that either nature (i.e. the all-encompassing whole) or the hypothesized ubiquitous substrate comprised of pure consciousness be aware of everything simultaneously. In other words, I am suggesting that, if there is a 'field' of consciousness underlying and unifying every phenomenon and every noumenon, that 'field' of consciousness might only facilitate fragmented intelligent processes which do not ultimately result in a singular emergent omniscience."