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I WAS WAITING FOR "THERE IS NO PROOF THAT IT WOULDN'T"
A MORE DEBATABLE PHRASEOLOGY FOR THE ORIGINAL POST WOULD HAVE BEEN "THERE IS NO _EVIDENCE_ THAT IT WOULD SPONTANEOUSLY BECOME CONSCIOUS" (BECAUSE THERE ISN'T)
YOU ARE RIGHT SOLID PROOFS EXIST SOLELY IN THE MATH SCIENCES AND WITH REGARDS TO REPRODUCIBLE PHYSICAL DEMONSTRATIONS, THOUGH THE PROCESS OF EMPIRICAL THEORY AND EXPERIMENTATION CAN BE FRACTIONALIZED TO ELUCIDATE CORE PROCESSES AND EXTRAPOLATE THEM UP TO IMPOSSIBLY COMPLEX SYSTEMS, THOUGH MAGNITUDES OF SCALE CAN FUNDAMENTALLY ALTER THE FRACTIONAL DYNAMIC SO, AS YOU SAY, GUESSES ALL THE WAY DOWN (UNTIL WE EVENTUALLY REACH ALL THE WAY DOWN AND KNOW IT DIRECTLY.... SUCKS WE'LL ALL BE LONG DEAD BY THEN)