It's awesome for gaming. The problem is it's often an afterthought. Alyx was amazing. There are amazing indie games. Hell, even the famous Beatsaber is an amazing fun game.
I read a Stack Overflow discussion about it a few years ago and if I remember correctly, they found some obscure one which was free but not open source.
Both free software and open source are strictly defined terms. Most F/OSS licenses are applicable to both, but there are licenses that are only open source, but but free software and vice-versa.
Pff, real programmers use butterflies. We open our hands and let the delicate wings flap once. The disturbance ripples outward, changing the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which acts as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit.
In your bio on old profile set a link to your new profile, that's the only way currently. Then set up a script that migrates your subscription list to the new account.
It's a cluster of workers where everyone can generate images/text using workers connected to the service.
So if you ran a worker, people could generate stuff using your PC. For that you would gain kudos, which in turn you can use to generate stuff on other people's computers.
Basically you do two things: help common people without access to powerful machines and use your capacity when you have time to use the kudos whenever you want, even on the road where you can't turn on your PC if you fancy so.
I know what emergent properties are, though not sure how that relates to anything I said? You mean the part about consciousness?
If so, the sentence you're looking for is this one:
consciousness arises out of the complex interaction of various component parts working together. No individual neuron is responsible for the processing of information or the experiencing of emotions, this is only possible through the linking of millions of neurons together
I never claimed a single neuron is responsible for consciousness, but if you're trying to imply that it's somehow magical, your own source says otherwise.
Time and gravity are not abstract ideas, both are measurable like temperature and weight. One is a property of space-time itself, the other is one of the fundamental forces, very likely caused by a physical particle.
Life is simply a bunch of chemical reactions tied together in a way that allows us to think. There's nothing beyond the physical form, even your very thoughts are tied to the chemical reactions in your brain.
If you want a proof, simply look at anyone who has had a dramatic shift in personality after a head trauma. If there was a "soul" (or whatever you want to call it), wouldn't their personality remain the same?
It's awesome for gaming. The problem is it's often an afterthought. Alyx was amazing. There are amazing indie games. Hell, even the famous Beatsaber is an amazing fun game.