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sanatanadharma

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4. As you observed, "Now we're asking what deviousness in evolution causes this..."

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Wed Nov 1, 2023, 03:34 PM

Nov 2023

As you observed, "Now we're asking what deviousness in evolution causes this..."

I suspect it is the ghost in the machine; 'Conscious-Beingness' that that is knowing, animating, motivating, enliven-ing the otherwise inert. No rocks are known to exist in worlds where only rocks exist.

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