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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by mensetmanusman on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:24AM (#20522531)
Not sure why you got down voted. You can use words like intention if you define your terms. Also, people are studying now rocks turned to life.

The real question is not consciousness, but why the laws of physics are perfectly tuned for its existence.

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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by wool_gather on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:16AM (#20526088)
There's no reason to think that the laws of physics are "perfectly" tuned for consciousness. This could be the universe where there's a trillion-to-one shot of its evolving, and we beat the odds.

The Anthropic Principle rightly points out that the question of "why does the universe support life" is fundamentally circular.

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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by 50656E6973 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:22PM (#20527965)
Who is suggesting that consciousness is completely dependent on having "the laws of physics perfectly tuned"? Obviously there are other conditions outside the scope of just physics that must be met to foster life
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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by wool_gather on Thursday July 25, 2019 @08:53PM (#20531352)
The comment to which I was replying?
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