(February 12, 2017 at 10:18 pm)bennyboy Wrote: That's quite the wall of text considering it doesn't actually seem to address the hard problem of consciousness. I mean. . . you haven't even defined what the term means.
If you are trying to say that the capacity for subjective experienced evolved, okay. You could say that with one sentence, since that issue has already been described and debated. But you still haven't explained why any physical system experiences qualia, rather than blindly processing input and outputting a behavior.
I think a lot fewer words could say a lot more, if you would put them together to express a clear opinion.
I believe that qualia is densely packed evolutionary information in our minds. They are like black holes that have become ultra efficient in their abilities, so they can input and output information in the most succinct possible form, feelings. I would say that if our consciousness is like an car, then feelings could very well be an evolutionary gas pedal and brake pedal.
