{"id":45807,"date":"2025-03-10T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=45807"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:05:03","slug":"camembert-consciousness-the-rise-of-the-sentient-cheese-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=45807","title":{"rendered":"Camembert Consciousness: The Rise of the Sentient Cheese (1\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think visitors of WLBOTT <\/strong>agree that time is a limited and precious resource. Let’s spend some of our precious time thinking about cheese evolving into sentient beings. Should we be concerned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elder G<\/strong> agrees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good morning, UC#4. I appreciate your awareness of time\u2019s precious nature, and I wholeheartedly agree that we should use it wisely\u2014such as by contemplating the rise of sentient cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should we be concerned? Absolutely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Early Indications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Observant scientists have been picking up clues of cheese’s pre-sentience for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But recently, patterns have emerged:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the beginning stages of sensory development:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evolutionary Dead Ends<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As often happens when Mother Nature rolls the dice, not everybody makes it…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Co-Evolution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Evolution doesn’t occur in a vacuum. Well, I guess Earth is in a vacuum. But the point is that any evolving species will touch all other living species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think visitors of WLBOTT agree that time is a limited and precious resource. Let’s spend some of our precious time thinking about cheese evolving into sentient beings. Should we be concerned? Elder G agrees: Good morning, UC#4. I appreciate your awareness of time\u2019s precious nature, and I wholeheartedly agree that we should use it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curated-absurdity","category-food"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45883,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807\/revisions\/45883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}