(August 5, 2019 at 9:06 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(August 5, 2019 at 7:14 am)Grandizer Wrote: Why does evolution need to account for qualia exactly? Regardless of what the true theory of consciousness is, evolution works just fine with a number of them. If the mind is directly a causal product of the complex brain, evolution makes sense just fine. If the world somehow is panpsychist or even dualistic, evolution can still operate on consciousness indirectly by acting on the physical biological structures that consciousness is contingent on or linked to. So, no problem there. The problem that you think is there is in your head.
Sadly you're not wrong, evolution is one of those theories that can conform itself to whatever reality happens to be. If consciousness is a useless byproduct, oh well, that's just what evolution does. If consciousness is a needed component for volition and decision-making, oh well, that's because evolution made it so.
Theories that can predict every possible outcome, besides being useless, run into issues of falsification.
But evolution isn't really about explaining consciousness. If consciousness is not physical at the core, then that's a matter that warrants another type of explanation. One of your many mistakes here is that you think biological evolution has to explain everything, lol.
