(July 7, 2022 at 3:00 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There's plenty of danger without qualia, life is full of it...there's really no such thing as "more evolved"..but even if there were..that wouldn't be it.
I think you just mean to express an insecurity about human nature. Does it matter, really? IDK - we've gone from objecting to science, to objecting to consciousness, to objecting to motivation, to straight up nihilism. You tell me. Does it matter what you'll say next....really....?
How is there danger without qualia?
"Danger" is the threat of a bad change of state. But without a sentient mind to decide what is / isn't bad, then in what sense WOULD any change of state in the Universe be good or bad?