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by SanityIsRare 2970 days ago
No, they don't solve problems, it's just natural selection in an environment with lots of randomness.

Life didn't even start out by solving problems, as I said: random order from chaos. Life doesn't care about solving problems, it's just collection of random matter.

Given enough random matter, you are destined to get some with odd properties in right conditions that can also spiral out of control to create something like a human.

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> No, they don't solve problems,

Of course they do. Being alive presents all kinds of problems. I mean, seriously man... I don't understand the things you write, really strange stuff, I'm at a loss.

Life didn't start out because it had the problem of not being a thing.

Can it still be considered "problem-solving" when the so-called "problems" are only so in the context of animal survival and breeding from the perspective of animal consciousness? Life just randomly grows and takes on random shapes, it's not a force of problem-solving.

Yet, here we are, solving problems.
You are not life, you are a human, a lifeform - product of life.
Life would extinguish itself if it was the force of problem-solving, because that would ultimately solve all the problems.

I don't know how can you create a problem-solving force from an environment where none exists. You can only create forces of chaos from such an environment.