Thanks a lot. Now I crave for the grilled asparagus. They really go well with the grilled steaks.
Hey, at least now they can make some nice grilled veggies.
Since I'm Mr. Pedant, I'll have you back that statement up with something concrete. After all, it is quite bold of you to say that for example, one's desire to work on interesting projects is purely biological and not at all related to the way consciousness works in humans.
No. You'll take your spoder girl character growth arc and LIKE IT.
There's no "pure biology", as this is a dualistic conception, where you are separating the mind and the body, life and its environment, when they are one and the same, consciousness is most likely an emergent property of human biology. Consider that human beings evolved as dopaminergic nomads, so the concept of "freedom" and what is "interesting" are built on top of that using an expanding set of values that align with that mode of being. Consider that a plant instead dominates its local environment, it has no need for locomotion, so imagine how a higher mind would operate under those circumstances, how different its values would be from our own. The work of Antonio Damasio is a fascinating look into human consciousness, highly recommend.
But this is logically the same as living in some D&D universe and insisting there's nothing supernatural about dudes who can set you on fire by mumbling a few words. Technically it can be true, if you define "nature" as everything that exists anywhere. It doesn't change the fact that it kind of takes a special kind of being to be capable of that and even if the ability is an emergent property of the simplest natural laws, generalizing like that is just obfuscating the argument purely for the sake of pretending distinctions don't exist or don't matter.
