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Comment author: tim 12 May 2015 03:32:59AM 1 point [-]

In the spirit of Lumifer's comment, anything we would consider an entity would have to be able to learn or we wouldn't be considering it at all.

Comment author: DanielLC 12 May 2015 05:40:14AM 0 points [-]

That would explain why all entities learn. Not why any entities learn. Ignoring things that can't learn doesn't explain the existence if things that can.