(March 7, 2022 at 1:51 pm)evolcon Wrote: The brain in non human animals constantly records, sorts and stores all sensory input, and than uses it to survive, that is what the brain evolved to do. Just like every other organ, it is a survival tool. What than is self awareness and consciousness, and why does it exist, what is it's purpose. Is it just a spandrel of language?
Since you seem interested in a particular kind of answer - I'll give you the quick and dirty on the only scientific theory of consciousness.
Just as any structure that can attend to details like "where is the hand" offer a body model with clear functional advantages, any system that can attend to -that- system offers an attention model with clear functional advantages.
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