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That's a good point about it emerging from certain properties and not just and idea of more complexity. I forgot where I first heard about the complexity being tied to consciousness, but it could be a simple property that we are overlooking. It might be a simple process that we are just not aware of. I do agree there is a sweet spot where a lot of these interactions could happen, but if it's too hot or too cold then nothing.

Maybe our consciousness wasn't actually "supposed to" happen. We might just be an accidental by-product of what the universe is actually working towards.

Yes. Malcolm's revenge or something like that. That's more click action like qfg3+ vs typing out everything like qfg1&2. It's easy to get lost without a guide in the earlier games.

I am, also, an elder millennial and confused. Maybe it's just some form of problem solving/way to sort your thoughts or options?

I loved that Quest for Glory soundtrack.

Is Kyrandia the one where you play a jester in the 3rd game? I remember liking that one a lot.

Is that what happened? I knew there was some court copyright thing about the song that changed around then. I had no idea it was just someone claiming they owned it and got called out. 😂

Some restaurants started singing the normal Happy Birthday song and I kinda miss those corny restaurant ones.

If it's emergent, it seems less presumptuous to assume that the most complex interconnected system of all, the universe itself, wouldn't develop consciousness.

I was, no shit, just thinking about this on my break about an hour ago. God or whatever you wanna call them. If there was a way to develop more consciousness by adding more information to the universe. If consciousness emerges to solve complex problems then maybe if we populate/terraform planets then we will have a deeper understanding.

Right, but you are stating for a fact that these changes occured. All we know is a 1 sentence description about how his mom changed from the POV of when he was a child.

Mum went from a happy hippie chick to Disney villain toxic narcissist.

A young mom losing her spouse is enough to shock your whole world and plan for life. She (I'm assuming) saw the money as security to help raise her son. Idk either way there is unprocessed trauma. I think, we agree with that fact. I just find it weird to be so 100% on diagnosising a mental illness with so little information.

This is what I do if it's really bad when I'm running. It's rare to get that bad, but I have shot snot on the ground while tilting my head away from my body.

If it's a small amount of snot, I can just wipe it with my shirt.

What can I say? I'm nasty, but I'm already being nasty by running, so I don't mind.

You don't think a young mother whose husband died would be a big enough significant emotional event to cause any change in the mother? Making up other unknowns isn't really necessary.

Unless they aren't actually trying to win and they are just controlled by corporate interests to be controlled opposition.