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We don't think either. We're just a chemical soup that tricked ourselves to believe we think.
Machines and algorithms don’t have emergent properties, organic things like us do.
There are emergent properties all the way down to the quantum level, being "organic" has nothing to do with it.
You’re correct, but that wasn’t the conversation. I didn’t say only organic, and I said machines and algorithms don’t. You chimed in just to get that “I’m right” high, and you are the problem with internet interactions.
There is really no fundamental difference between an organsim or a sufficently complicated machine and there is no reason why the later shouldn't have the possibilty of emergent properties.
Defensive much? Looks you're the one with the problem.