It's all in a day's work. We recognize how important animals are to people.
Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.
The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.
Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.
The mind is an evolved computer program.
It's a nightmare fighting a fire in a high-rise. We have enough problems with fires from generators at houses.
For reasons that are unknown, something happened to one of the cables, letting all that weight come down. They do have safety lines on there, and one of the davits appears to be bent.
We try not to destroy the homes, but we have to get inside. Drastic circumstances call for drastic measures.