Comment by slopinthebag
15 hours ago
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.
Why can't an emergent capability arise in service of a predictive objective?
How would it?