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>Now, it would be nice if there were a lesson in this list of errors that might help scientists do better in the future. But the whole history of science shows that such errors are actually unavoidable. There is a lesson, though, based on what the mistakes on this list have in common: They’re all on a list of errors now known to be errors. Science, unlike certain political philosophies and personality cults, corrects its mistakes. That’s the lesson, and that’s why respecting science is so important to avoiding errors in other realms of life.

Yes "respect science" experts say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimz-PZMjjs

>>Now, it would be nice if there were a lesson in this list of errors that might help scientists do better in the future. But the whole history of science shows that such errors are actually unavoidable. There is a lesson, though, based on what the mistakes on this list have in common: They’re all on a list of errors now known to be errors. Science, unlike certain political philosophies and personality cults, corrects its mistakes. That’s the lesson, and **that’s why respecting science** is so important to avoiding errors in other realms of life. Yes "respect science" experts say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimz-PZMjjs

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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

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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.

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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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well it was never going to be easy? here's what we have so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology

lots of little steps within the process have already been replicated

and RNA predates DNA and it's much simpler https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26876/

and a few neurons are capable of astonishing levels of thinking

I don't think any other contradicting explanation is required at this point, unless people just like the idea of a deity they can talk to and a religion that separates them from monkeys. Even a God would just create soup and stare at it for a long time ("look, I made life...")