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The real NFTs are on ETH end of discussion

800,000 human brain cells, floating in a dish, have never had a body. Never seen light. Never felt anything. And they just learned to play a video game. That's not a metaphor. That's literally what happened. These neurons are alive. They fire. They adapt. They get better at DOOM over time, which means something inside that petri dish is changing in response to failure. Scientists call it "goal-directed learning." There is no cleaner definition of that phrase than "it kept trying until it got better." The cells have no survival instinct, no reward system, no reason to improve. They just do. The part nobody's talking about: researchers have to convert the game's visuals into electrical pulses the neurons can interpret. Which means those cells are perceiving something. Not seeing it the way you do. But processing a version of a world that doesn't exist, inside a container that was never meant to think. The Turing Test was about machines fooling humans. Nobody wrote the test for this.

So we have a German Bitcoin trading card game & somehow undeservedly there's a card dedicated to me. Naturally I'm paying people to burn it. It's the rarest with 53+/210 destroyed 🔥 🃏 10 were burned yesterday at the Berlin Bitcoin meetup. 500k sats bar tab on me.