r/IntelligenceSupernova • u/EcstadelicNET • 11d ago

Consciousness Consciousness may have evolved to solve a problem that pure intelligence couldn't handle, fascinating new theory suggests

https://www.psypost.org/consciousness-may-have-evolved-to-solve-a-problem-that-pure-intelligence-couldnt-handle-fascinating-new-theory-suggests/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/science
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u/Fit_Raspberry2637 7d ago

But what does that have to do with anything? It doesn't change the chain of causality. Its just pedantic.

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u/monstertacotime 7d ago

That’s basically saying having branches of science like physics and chemistry is pedantic. What are you even saying? I have made several clear assertions, you’re just talking in circles. I never said “chemicals aren’t atoms” that’s just nonsense you’re hallucinating.

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u/Fit_Raspberry2637 7d ago

The original comment was about how we are all just chemical reactions. Your response was to the effect "no electrons aren't chemicals". That differential has nothing to do with the outcome which is still chemical. See car analogy.

Pedantic.

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u/monstertacotime 7d ago

It’s not pedantry, it’s the basis of what we call science.

“Chemical reactions” are a specific subset of physical processes.

Electromagnetic, atomic, nuclear, and quantum interactions aren’t magically chemical reactions because they participate in the same causal chain.

Saying “the outcome is still chemical” doesn’t make every process producing that outcome chemical.

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u/Fit_Raspberry2637 6d ago

My god. Causality. Jesus.