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People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don’t have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3144/
We recently figured out why ice is slippery. Normies make it seem like all that’s left to learn is at the fringes, but it’s not. Our gaps in knowledge are everywhere. Even you can be an explorer!
I assumed it was because of a thin water layer that makes you essentially hydroplane when you step on it, am I even close?
Edit: Yes, but also no.