RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
February 16, 2017 at 4:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 4:31 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(February 16, 2017 at 12:06 pm)bennyboy Wrote: To me, this is the most honest answer. However, it seems that since qualia can't interact with anything, there would be no mechanism for it to evolve, even by chance.
You say it's the most honest answer but you're entirely missing my point about evolutionary by-products.
There doesn't need to be a reason for qualia to evolve. It's purposeless and useless, a side effect. A side effect of having complex brains that ARE useful.
A moth doesn't have an evolutionary reason for suiciding itself into a hot lamp either. It's an evolutionary by-product and side effect of its flight mechanism that is useful.
