(March 12, 2022 at 5:01 pm)The L Wrote:(March 10, 2022 at 7:06 am)Jehanne Wrote: Consciousness also aides with survival and the passing of one's genes, except when it comes to nuclear weapons and catastrophic climate change.
I don't think it does. We could act as if we were conscious without being conscious. Consciousness itself doesn't seem to add anything useful.
It's unclear whether we could "act conscious" without being conscious, semantically and functionally.
Do you think an attention model could be useful just as a body model is useful?
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