RE: The Philosophy of Mind: Zombies, "radical emergence" and evidence of non-experiential
April 22, 2018 at 8:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2018 at 8:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A commonly referenced framework for an evolutionary theory of consciousness is AST. Attention Schema Theory. It posits that qualia is a form of internal modeling, and that the benefits of this internal modeling are not only observable in other physical systems...but also, in all likelihood, much farther back down the evolutionary branches than we might expect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory
(you should really browse the publications in reference - particularly the lit review)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory
(you should really browse the publications in reference - particularly the lit review)
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