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How does a water droplet "know" the path downhill. How does electricity "know" the least resistance path.

All this language is just confusing. In a chemical gradient sense, molds and yeasts solve tough problems all the time, but it's not much more than physics

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How many simple physics combinations until you get intelligence? Remember that you are made of cells, and everything you do (probably) can be reduced to a group effect of your cells.

Complexity is not magic. It's just a long search for the right combo. In fact we have untold trillions of branching iterations in evolution.

This does not answer the question.

If it's more than physics at all, what's the extra bit?

Well, I guess a fancy narrative.

Even that is physics.

The Froghurt is also cursed. Which also is a fancy narrative. It's fancy self-referential narratives all the way down.

(Good point and agreed, but who am I to pass up meme potential. ;)

You used my own point to "gotcha", so I guess that's Hackernews!

A gotcha was not intended. I commented in your support, with mild humor implied.

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