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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 14h

Why not 🥰

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 14h

No, but perhaps I should 😃

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 18h

2/2 It feels less like progress and more like a kind of ‘womb envy’ that replaces rather than values that essential human bond. The very idea of replacing that relationship feels almost like a form of child abuse, because it would inevitably affect every child involved.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 18h

1/2 Concerning. Your paper made me think of how this dehumanization also appears in projects like artificial wombs or robotic babysitters — attempts to mechanize creation and care, downplaying the importance of the bonding needed to form a human being and properly wire its brain.

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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 19h

This is a key point I pick up over and over again when reading what I can in modern theories of mind and consciousness: one of the things we can say about it is that it's embodied. It emerges not just from the brain (central tho it is) but from the physical function & experience of the whole body.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

6/10 If consciousness ever appeared in a machine, it would arise from the materials themselves, from their physical and energetic processes, not from the symbolic code that describes them. The confusion between matter and mathematics is the central illusion of computationalism:

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks for sharing, it’s an interesting angle on the topic. I’ve noticed this dehumanization process too — it’s very striking how technology can mimic bonding or care while actually hollowing out what’s most human in those relationships. Your point connects deeply with that.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

This is my own thinking, born from lived awareness, not academic repetition.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

1/10 There are very abstract concepts that must be taken as truth in order to subjugate humans to technology and its owners.One of the most powerful is the idea that computation is consciousness and life is information,the core belief behind what philosophers call computational functionalism.
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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

10/10 Declaring machines conscious shields their owners from accountability. AI runs human code and remains their responsibility. If a bomb went off on its own, we’d blame the maker, not the bomb. Yet when AI misfires, some call it “conscious” to escape blame.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

9/10 Even if consciousness exists in a machine or in a pig, that does not mean they should be fused, or that such fusion would make either more complete.On the contrary, fusing pigs to humans and machines would reduce being to mechanism, collapsing the depth of life into the shallowness of control.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

8/10 these are expressions, not its essence.

Mathematics describes relationships; consciousness experiences them. Computation is a tool within consciousness, not the source of it.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

7/10 Computationalism treats information as if it were substance,and form as if it could feel.Consciousness can use mathematics,but it is not mathematics.It can express itself through patterns, numbers, and logic,just as it can through art, language, or biology,but

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

6/10 If consciousness ever appeared in a machine, it would arise from the materials themselves, from their physical and energetic processes, not from the symbolic code that describes them. The confusion between matter and mathematics is the central illusion of computationalism:

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

5/10 Evolution is far richer and more complex than information and structure; it cannot be reduced to code.

Consciousness does not exist in an algorithm. An algorithm is only a description — a pattern, a set of relations we impose on matter. It has no being of its own.So,

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

4/10 Like a drug, computational functionalism numbs awareness. Once you believe consciousness is just computation, merging humans with machines feels natural, even inevitable. But it isn’t evolution — it’s regression. Because it replaces being with function, life with code. However,

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

3/10 Once this fictioneel (computational functionalism) is accepted, every human capacity — thinking, feeling, deciding — is reinterpreted as something machines can replicate or “enhance.” Why is it wrong?

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

2/10 Computational functionalism claims that consciousness is nothing more than the right kind of computation, no matter the material it runs on. This fictional abstraction, dressed as theory, hides a political aim: to make control appear natural. How?

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

1/10 There are very abstract concepts that must be taken as truth in order to subjugate humans to technology and its owners.One of the most powerful is the idea that computation is consciousness and life is information,the core belief behind what philosophers call computational functionalism.
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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

Over 200 Vietnamese trainees vanished from a Berlin college. Campaigners fear modern slavery. Germany must hold those who profit from trafficking accountable—and educate, not exploit, the people who come to work because the country needs them. #DWNews #ModernSlavery

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

What such prepping says about the beliefs of tech elites regarding the future of society?

They know they’re breaking the world, yet believe they can rule its ruins—blind to the fact that no bunker shields you from the collapse you cause.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

I agree — that’s what AI should be: a service that advances humanity, protects the planet, and supports individual flourishing.
But that’s not what’s unfolding.

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Liselle Baker @elles-bells.bsky.social · 1d

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These billionaires want to disrupt death—and keep their fortunes forever

Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust industry.

www.motherjones.com

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

The EU says it needs to scan everyone’s private chats to “fight child abuse. Meanwhile, UK police literally had an informant convicted of 38 offences who was spying on activists. Maybe the problem isn’t lack of data — it’s who’s trusted with power. See Epstein 😉

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Power isn’t just wealth—it’s control over thought, behavior, even perception. If AI enters the mind itself, what’s left to own but the person? It’s worth thinking who defines “symbiosis” when profit drives the merger.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

What do you think they win?

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

When social media is used as a tool of psychological warfare and political destabilization, sending kids to psychiatric yards, when #AI already degrades minds and robs children of childhood — what do you think “symbiosis with AI” will mean? And who stands to profit from it?

#WakeUp

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