If you mean that the plant's phototaxic behavior is necessary
given its genetic makeup, then I agree (but that doesn't make
it unreasonable). If you mean that it is logically necessary for
plants to grow toward the light, then I don't agree. At some
point in the distant past no plants grew toward the light and
no doubt there are some species today that still rely on
external circumstances for sunlight.
>Is reason automatic? (That would be nice....)
It depends how it is implemented. Some systems (e.g. chess programs)
reason automatically. Others (notably humans) seem to have a choice,
at least for conscious reasoning if not intuition.
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