RE: The evolution of pain.
June 12, 2016 at 5:09 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2016 at 5:10 pm by emjay.)
(June 12, 2016 at 4:47 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote:(June 12, 2016 at 4:37 pm)Emjay Wrote: Maybe it's more to do with the healing than as a warning system per se... fear warns of danger but pain signals something else? So maybe extreme pain is just effectively saying 'you cannot afford to do anything else other than wait for this to heal/subside'... saying essentially that movement itself could be causing more damage.
Evolution is stupid
I'm still hung up on why there is experience in the first place... as a hard determinist AFAIK it's superfluous and we may as well be philosophical zombies so the question for me is why are we not? I don't think we'd do anything whatsoever differently without phenomenal consciousness... civilization would still progress as it is now and people would still use Facebook etc but there would be no conscious recognition of any of it, just neural networks processing data.
