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Re:Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of... by hdjjhhvvhga on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:16AM (#28945650)
I'd accept it, but it's illogical. There are just too many accidents needed to make this happen.

Paradoxically, at the same time our minds are so limited they can accept only two possibilities: (1) everything was created by a god, (2) everything happened by accident. My pet peeve is that there is a third option, but our minds are unable to grasp it.

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Re:Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of... by Jensson on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:51AM (#28946281)
Imagine if we could find a scientific explanation for consciousness, and that would lead to a ton of new discoveries. The world might become more sci-fi than we could ever dream of today.

So it is sad to see so many view this question as impossible to solve, or just give out hand wavy explanations like "computation" etc, rather than try to think about what would actually be required to understand what consciousness is.

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