(April 5, 2014 at 8:08 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Epiphenomenalism seems to run into a Darwinian problem. If consciousness is basically useless, perhaps a "byproduct" of other functions, why did/does evolution select for it? These are all questions I'm sure you have discussed countless times before but have you considered panpsychism?
I am a conscious entity because I couldn't be any other kind of entity.

