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mcshadypants t1_iyeye0g wrote

I think most scientists assume that the evolution of the prefrontal cortex took a long long time so there was almost certainly very large gray area of what would be considered "almost" self-conscious but not quite. Also we don't really know how finite the universe or intelligent life in the universe is.

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