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when you put those two components together, you get a creature who acts in the world such that their environment becomes more hospitable, which fosters better imagination and more freetime, which leads to a faster rate of improvement
then you get renaissance/enlightenment/society or whatever
i wonder if the point of critical mass of consciousness could be identified
it would depend on how inhospitable the starting environment is
i wonder if you could create a unit system for that..