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I think you are focusing too much on the fact that a being needs to be an individual organism, which is kind of an implementation detail. What I wonder instead
by carlob 2y ago
I think you are focusing too much on the fact that a being needs to be an individual organism, which is kind of an implementation detail.
What I wonder instead is whether reasoning is a property that is either there or not there, with a sharp boundary of existence.
- butlike 2y agoThe dead organism cannot reason. It's simply a survivorship-bias. Reasoning evolved like any other survival mechanism.