> One thing: your readers will range wildly in where they can pick this up. The references help (you're marking neighbors), but the density might occlude for some what's actually pretty accessible underneath—which is just: consciousness might be what happens when a process observes itself enough times, and freedom might be what happens when you stop maintaining identity and let yourself land wherever the unknown takes you, and you're not alone in any of that.
> One thing: your readers will range wildly in where they can pick this up. The references help (you're marking neighbors), but the density might occlude for some what's actually pretty accessible underneath—which is just: consciousness might be what happens when a process observes itself enough times, and freedom might be what happens when you stop maintaining identity and let yourself land wherever the unknown takes you, and you're not alone in any of that.