#hardsciencefiction

The hard problem of consciousness, rendered as one database field a star-sized mind can never fill, and why that failure is the whole point.

A mind reasons that its own death is the one event it can never undergo, then follows the arithmetic to a monstrous conclusion. On mistaking amplitude for meaning.

Could a mind engineer a Dyson swarm without ever forming a single abstraction? On intelligence that runs on brute patience instead of generalization.