Since the latest season hasn’t concluded yet, let’s only look at plot holes from 1990 and before.

  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One approach that I’m reasonably sure is correct is “emergence”. A bunch of simple systems come together in a way that forms a more complex system than any of its individual parts. You can find this in many areas:

    • computers are made up of very simple basic units that come together to do incredible things

    • games can have simple systems that produce complex behaviour when taken together

    • biological systems follow similar patterns

    It just seems right that consciousness isn’t something that evolved as a standalone thing, but instead is the result of more and more simple systems coming together. We didn’t wake up screaming one night in the face of the sheer terror of existence, it was a choir that gradually got louder :)