(January 16, 2023 at 4:15 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(January 16, 2023 at 12:54 am)Paleophyte Wrote: Pain is little more than a damage indicator. Don't do this, it hurts. About as complicated as a check engine light. There's some pretty obvious survival advantage to avoiding an unnecessarily punctured hide.Awareness/subjective experience seem to be unnecessary for proper external behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
I'd hardly call that proper external behaviour and all it really demonstrates is that they're using a secondary pathway that doesn't correspond to normal visual perception but clearly is perception nonetheless. Congratulations on demonstrating qualia.