well there is science that you can measure all the variables and work out what is going on (like a ball rolling downhill), science that involves a lot of confusing quantum effects (like signals in a semiconductor) and science that is just building theories based on what we think might have happened but we can't replicate, and we don't understand what is going on or what these particles were (big bang)
and then there is medical stuff where the variables are infinite and nobody really cares as long as the death count remains low
anyone poopoo'ing big bang theories is wasting their time, they would never understand page 1
If our bodies are just mere interfaces between this world and what we call our consciousness, pretty much like a 3D character would be between an open world and the gamer, then being a scientist studying this world would be like being a scientist in minecraft; he discovers and learns stuffs and shits, but in the end those are only meaningful in minecraft
Maybe this world is just that, some sort of hamster wheel in which we find ourselves trapped in, sort of
I think if we ca be fairly sure we evolved from primordial vegetable soup, and we can simulate a lot of evolutionary adaptions like 'thinking' using AI, so I think life is really just an inevitable process of adaption.
stare at that soup for long enough and something will crawl out of it
consciousness is just our sensory processing response, there's no reason to imagine it's anything more than clever soup.
A "clever soup" popping out of nowhere, just like that? A "clever soup" relying on a very complex "mechanism" called DNA to generate all sorts of biomechanical entities, some being self aware
I find that very unlikely
Just as unlikely as a computer popping out of nowhere with an AI installed on it
I don't think the existence of that computer and its AI are just the result of randomness
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