At what systemic level do we start to see living beings making decisions rather than purely chemical reactions?

posted 1 year ago

Starting from a molecule on up, to cells and beyond, at what system level is a being actually making a decision rather than reacting to their chemical environment based on purely chemical laws? For example, the molecules in a cells are solely reacting to their environment based on chemical fundamentals. However, a person thinks things through and makes decisions. Where in that range do we see decisions start to emerge?

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Adama@kbin.social

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1 year ago

If it helps any there are some things that are fundamentally random and unknowable.

Given a starting condition and an infinite amount of processing power we can predict the overall trend of large systems but you can’t accurate model the exact point of a subatomic particle because you can’t know it’s speed and it’s location since the process of measuring one affects the other.

Subatomic particles are just wild

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