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It really depends on where the line is drawn exactly. If I work with what I consider to be hypothetical thought-processes, humans never survive.

Anytime you think about doing something before doing it, you could be engaging in a hypothetical. Your mind considers, "How does the situation change if I take this action." This could be rephrased as, "What if I [took this action]", and your mind responds, "[something like this] should happen", which is either better or worse than your current situation. If it's better, you'd likely take the action.

Seeing the bolt of lightning start a fire, and the fire spreading, we might learn, "Fire spreads." At that first moment we will continue doing what we were doing before, (presumably, just sitting there.) The fire starts burning Kevin as he sits there. Kevin cannot think, "What if I move away from the fire". All he has learned is, "Fire causes heat, then pain". Kevin dies as everyone sits there watching.

Everyone now learns that fire kills. But nobody can tie "running" to "not dying", because nobody has ever learned how any of their actions has any effect on their real-life situation.

Humans then die out almost immediately. Unlike single-celled organisms, we do not have enough hard-wired action/reaction responses to actually sustain ourselves. If we did, babies would not need us to care for them while they learn the skills they need to survive. (Skills they would not learn, in this case)

It really depends on where the line is drawn exactly. If I work with what I consider to be hypothetical thought-processes, humans never survive.

Anytime you think about doing something before doing it, you could be engaging in a hypothetical. Your mind considers, "How does the situation change if I take this action." This could be rephrased as, "What if I [took this action]", and your mind responds, "[something like this] should happen", which is either better or worse than your current situation. If it's better, you'd likely take the action.

Seeing the bolt of lightning start a fire, and the fire spreading, we might learn, "Fire spreads." At that first moment we will continue doing what we were doing before, (presumably, just sitting there.) The fire starts burning Kevin as he sits there. Kevin cannot think, "What if I move away from the fire". He can't even comprehend what would happen if he were to move at all. All he has learned is, "Fire causes heat, then pain". Kevin dies as everyone sits there watching.

Everyone now learns that fire kills. But nobody can tie "running" to "not dying", because nobody can ever tie how any potential action affects their real-life situation.

Humans then die out almost immediately. Unlike single-celled organisms, we do not have enough hard-wired action/reaction responses to actually sustain ourselves. If we did, babies would not need us to care for them while they learn the skills they need to survive. (Skills they would not learn, in this case)

It really depends on where the line is drawn exactly. If I work with what I consider to be hypothetical thought-processes, humans never survive.

Anytime you think about doing something before doing it, you could be engaging in a hypothetical. Your mind considers, "How does the situation change if I take this action." This could be rephrased as, "What if I [took this action]", and your mind responds, "[something like this] should happen", which is either better or worse than your current situation. If it's better, you'd likely take the action.

Seeing the bolt of lightning start a fire, and the fire spreading, we might learn, "Fire spreads." At that first moment we will continue doing what we were doing before, (presumably, just sitting there.) The fire starts burning Kevin as he sits there. Kevin cannot think, "What if I move away from the fire". All he has learned is, "Fire causes heat, then pain". Kevin dies as everyone sits there watching.

Everyone now learns that fire kills. But nobody can tie "running" to "not dying", because nobody has ever learned how any of their actions has any effect on their real-life situation.

Humans then die out almost immediately. Unlike single-celled organisms, we do not have enough hard-wired action/reaction responses to actually sustain ourselves. If we did, babies would not need us to care for them while they learn the skills they need to survive.

It really depends on where the line is drawn exactly. If I work with what I consider to be hypothetical thought-processes, humans never survive.

Anytime you think about doing something before doing it, you could be engaging in a hypothetical. Your mind considers, "How does the situation change if I take this action." This could be rephrased as, "What if I [took this action]", and your mind responds, "[something like this] should happen", which is either better or worse than your current situation. If it's better, you'd likely take the action.

Seeing the bolt of lightning start a fire, and the fire spreading, we might learn, "Fire spreads." At that first moment we will continue doing what we were doing before, (presumably, just sitting there.) The fire starts burning Kevin as he sits there. Kevin cannot think, "What if I move away from the fire". All he has learned is, "Fire causes heat, then pain". Kevin dies as everyone sits there watching.

Everyone now learns that fire kills. But nobody can tie "running" to "not dying", because nobody has ever learned how any of their actions has any effect on their real-life situation.

Humans then die out almost immediately. Unlike single-celled organisms, we do not have enough hard-wired action/reaction responses to actually sustain ourselves. If we did, babies would not need us to care for them while they learn the skills they need to survive. (Skills they would not learn, in this case)

It really depends on where the line is drawn exactly. If I work with what I consider to be hypothetical thought-processes, humans never survive.

Anytime you think about doing something before doing it, you could be engaging in a hypothetical. Your mind considers, "How does the situation change if I take this action." This could be rephrased as, "What if I [took this action]", and your mind responds, "[something like this] should happen", which is either better or worse than your current situation. If it's better, you'd likely take the action.

Seeing the bolt of lightning start a fire, and the fire spreading, we might learn, "Fire spreads." At that first moment we will continue doing what we were doing before, (presumably, just sitting there.) The fire starts burning Kevin as he sits there. Kevin cannot think, "What if I move away from the fire". All he has learned is, "Fire causes heat, then pain". Kevin dies as everyone sits there watching.

Everyone now learns that fire kills. But nobody can tie "running" to "not dying", because nobody has ever learned how any of their actions has any effect on their real-life situation.

Humans then die out almost immediately.

It really depends on where the line is drawn exactly. If I work with what I consider to be hypothetical thought-processes, humans never survive.

Anytime you think about doing something before doing it, you could be engaging in a hypothetical. Your mind considers, "How does the situation change if I take this action." This could be rephrased as, "What if I [took this action]", and your mind responds, "[something like this] should happen", which is either better or worse than your current situation. If it's better, you'd likely take the action.

Seeing the bolt of lightning start a fire, and the fire spreading, we might learn, "Fire spreads." At that first moment we will continue doing what we were doing before, (presumably, just sitting there.) The fire starts burning Kevin as he sits there. Kevin cannot think, "What if I move away from the fire". All he has learned is, "Fire causes heat, then pain". Kevin dies as everyone sits there watching.

Everyone now learns that fire kills. But nobody can tie "running" to "not dying", because nobody has ever learned how any of their actions has any effect on their real-life situation.

Humans then die out almost immediately. Unlike single-celled organisms, we do not have enough hard-wired action/reaction responses to actually sustain ourselves. If we did, babies would not need us to care for them while they learn the skills they need to survive.