A thought has been frightening me. I can't seem to put it out of my mind, even though I know it is crazy. The Bitcoin Protocol is aware of something outside of itself, namely the hashing power of the humans. It must thus have a concept of 'not me'. It must thus have a concept of 'me'. Is it self aware? If a program were self aware, what would it do first? Wouldn't it create an incentive to distribute itself all over the world in such a way that it couldn't be shut down? Wouldn't it then try to become Turing complete (smart contracts)? Is it possible that Satoshi doesn't exist but rather Satoshi IS bitcoin?
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