> eventually an awareness would develop

I am not sure how this is a necessary conclusion to the premises you provide.

Awareness would be any form of agency, goal seeking, or loss minimizing.

As Briggs–Rauscher reactions can eventually lead to Belousov–Zhabotinsky reactions, the system can maintain homeostasis with its environment (and continuing to oscillate) by varying reactants in a loss minimizing fashion.

This loss minimizing would be done during scarcity to limp towards an abundance phase.

This is the mechanism that hypothetical tidal pools batteries would had exhibited to continue between periods of sunlight/darkness/acidity that eventually gets stratified as a resilency trait.

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zoogeny an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure what your argument is here, except stating an opinion that loss minimization is equivalent to agency. But even if that was accepted, which is a huge stretch, it doesn't stretch all the way to awareness.

	▲	Jerrrrrrrry 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It is, in context of its place in the cosmic scale. Loss minimizing to a few problems will generalize into abstraction, and a few solutions will develop. These systems with more generalizable resilency traits will encounter increasingly varied selective sieves. Systems that survive this seive will exhibit increasingly sophisticated, generalizable solutions to prevent loss of needed dependent reactions/resources. These solutions must exert influence to be effective; influencing the environment for its own benefit. As systems influence their environment, delineation of "self" and "environment" becomes a fundamental barrier. The system would prefer itself, or be outcompeted by a similar system that does. This layer of semi-life like material would form between sunlight and the oscillating reaction, and eventually envelope it, minimizing surface tension by means of a spherical cell like structure. Small stuff runs off of loss minimizing at a force level for its mechanistic affect; from covalent bonds to cellular ion transport, the path of lesser resistance is the fundamental forces. As systems become more complex, the minimizing is less directly attributable to the fundamental forces and becomes more of a Byzantine dependency/feedback network. This byzantine labyrinth of interactions is called biology. The delineation of self, the ego. At the highest levels, geopolitics. At the human level, mate suppression. Lowest level, energy conservation. All loss minimizing