Christianity is heading for a full allegorization

[Ferrocyanide]

I saw it mentioned that consciousness doesn’t seem to be required for addition.  I think that’s true, but I also struggle to think of anyone who thinks that our brains are an evolutionary response to needing to do addition.

Yes. We were talking about how to recognize if a circuit has consciousness.

For the human brain, it doesn’t do addition in the same way as an ADDER circuit. The brain has developed the ability to do basic logic and this includes the ability to recognize people, creatures, other objects in its environment. So, along with that comes the ability to count.
So, humans have the ability to count all the members of their family and probably all other vertebrates can do it as well.

I think humans do addition by doing symbolic manipulation, which is very different than the way that an ADDER circuit works.