The Cartoon AI Teaching the Internet Philosophy

The Amazing Digital Circus did not set out to be a philosophical seminar. It set out to be an animated series about humans trapped in a video game. The fact that it has become a more productive site for consciousness argument than most venues that explicitly claim the subject is not an accident of fandom enthusiasm — it is a structural consequence of what the show provides that professional debate does not: a stable, shared object that everyone examining the question is looking at simultaneously.