(May 28, 2013 at 5:44 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote: Whose to say that we don't do exactly that? Perhaps we function in exactly the way you just described and "conciousness" is simply a side effect of that process.
An unintended sticky residue is a side affect. The existence of subjective awareness is more important to us than probably anything else-- calling it a side affect is strange. It also amounts to a "just because" answer, a.k.a. Goddidit. But is it ever okay to assume something is a brute fact, just because we can't explain it in any meaningful way?
