Indeed, unimaginable what is possible! There will also be traces of H, N, O, S etc due to comets crashing in, so room for carbon chemistry once temperature permits.
IMO TFA doesn't map too cleanly onto the concept of "bootloader" (nor "microcode" for that matter). But I guess the question is, as always, can you unlock it.
The range of computational processes a human brain could perform is quite large. The range of computational processes that resemble the behavior of a sane human? Far less so.
Methinks one ought to start by figuring out sets like:
- computational processes able to be communicated at all
- computational processes able to be bootstrapped using no more theory of mind than is required for effective operant conditioning
- computational processes that can be bootstrapped outside the purview of pre-existing mental habits
- computational processes that should never be launched in the mind of a living being
- pseudo-computational processes that are inherently misperceivable as computable
>The phirst philosophical lesson of phreaking is that sanity is proprietary. These days it comes in "precarious proletarian", "bourgeois bohemian" and "billionaire psychopath" editions (named after the D&D alignments). Which one did you pick when you created your account in the latest version? Did you know you could just nope?
