DM Are consciousness and sentience synonyms? Please don't be anthropocentric in your answer(s)! No, they're not synonyms — though they're deeply entangled, and the conflation is itself a revealing symptom of the anthropocentrism you're wisely flagging. Sentience is generally the more basic, evolutionarily ancient capacity: the ability to have subjective experience — particularly to feel, to register valence (pleasant/unpleasant), to suffer or flourish in some phenomenal sens

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DM Good morning! Based on our many prior related conversations, today I'd like to share a differing, perhaps more expansive, perspective of the Universal Holophren™. Attached you'll see: 1) A "hierarchical arrangement" graphic (as opposed to the prior "relational" or integrated view we've discussed extensively); thus consider: 2) How Holoprhrens engage WITHIN Pantakinesis™ , ... but only to the limits of respective "vanishing points; " 3)The various "contexts" of vanishing po

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