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green_meklar t1_irpkbv8 wrote

Reply to comment by Desperate_Donut8582 in Singularity, Protests and Authoritarianism by Lawjarp2

>Smarter doesn’t mean free will or consciousnesses

I think at some point it does. Humans didn't get those things by accident, we got them because the kind of thinking that works effectively involves those things.

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Desperate_Donut8582 t1_irpkgux wrote

We don’t know if it does maybe questioning things and being self aware is a result of a biological evolutionary means of survival

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green_meklar t1_isdz88d wrote

Well, it is, but that's not by coincidence, it's because intelligence is effective and intelligent investigation of the world beyond some level tends to incorporate the appropriate concepts because they actually refer to things in the world.

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