RE: The Philosophy of Mind: Zombies, "radical emergence" and evidence of non-experiential
April 22, 2018 at 7:40 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2018 at 7:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You don't think that the investigations of science leverage our conscious experience, or that the production of art and culture in our population is derived from that exeperience? You see no particular physical attraction in a conscious agent that is otherwise not present in a doll?
These would be things that consciousness is doing, or if you prefer contributing to in the context of evolutionary biology. Are they computationally useful? Maybe not. Does it grant you "free will"..neither of us thinks so. Are they selectively advantageous? Take a look around you, you tell me.
These would be things that consciousness is doing, or if you prefer contributing to in the context of evolutionary biology. Are they computationally useful? Maybe not. Does it grant you "free will"..neither of us thinks so. Are they selectively advantageous? Take a look around you, you tell me.
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