>>12274557>decidingconsciousness is a hard problem. if you were to say that humans are the only sapient creature on earth, you would probably not ruffle many feathers. if that's the case, then the spider is incapable of decision, it just acts. like how algae will move toward light using its eyespot. the algae is not deciding to do so, the process is automatic.
when the spider does it, it is nature. if a man spreads a handful of wildflower seeds on the ground, those flowers are still subject to natural selection. but if he comes back and plucks the flowers except for the blue ones, because he prefers blue, then he is now performing artificial selection.
