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“It's
looking like consciousness is an emergent process, a sum that
is greater than and not predictable from a large number of
interacting, deterministic, even simple parts. My music is
built in ways that suggest and refer to this emergence. Is
it possible for a piece of music to itself become conscious
in some odd way, on some punctuated time scale, dependent
for embodiment on computers and sound systems as our minds
are dependent on the wetware of our brains? We're already
beginning to see music that can adapt and evolve in response
to its environment. As the boundaries between music and software
continue to blur, we can begin to imagine music that can attain
sentience.”
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