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This is just pure unbridled reductionism. "Show me a single atom in the human body that is 'alive'. You can't? Therefore we're all zombies...."

Reasoning is an emergent property of complex systems. Prediction is not. Thus you cannot claim reasoning drives prediction.



Your comment was reductionist

> Where is the reasoning in linear regression?

The comment you are replying to was meant to expose you to your own reductionism.


Why can't an emergent capability arise in service of a predictive objective?


How would it?




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