>I think you're kind of losing track of what this thread was originally about.

Maybe I am! Somebody posed a theory about how self-improvement will work and concluded that it would lead to self-awareness. Somebody else replied that they were on board until the self-awareness part because they considered it supernatural. I said I don't think self-awareness is supernatural, and you clarified that it might be the undefined process of becoming self-aware that is being called supernatural. And then I objected that undefined processes leading to predictable outcomes is commonplace, so that usage of supernatural doesn't stand up as an argument.

Now you're saying it is the rest of the original, the hive-mindy bits, that are at issue. I agree with that entirely, and I wouldn't bet on that method of self-improvement at 10% odds. My impression was that that was all conceded right out of the gate. Have I lost the plot somewhere?