Oh the Double Standards!

[MindForgedManacle]

On the contrary, as many animals display the same sort if consciousness, you haven't explained why it's unnecessary, nor why evolutionary psychology is highly accurate at explaining behavior.

Simply, you are arguing that less complex algorithms are better adaptations to the environment

I don't think you're on the same page as me with regard to how the term consciousness is being used. I'm talking about the existence, rather than the non-existence of qualia.

Given that qualia are only the subjective awareness of the "algorithms" you're talking about, the elephant in the room isn't about comparative bioligy-- it's about why qualia exist rather than not-- since there's no good reason a brain (or any other machine) couldn't process any amount of information without having subjective experience about it.

Since you posted that right after my last post, I assume it was aimed at me. And if that's the case, I wonder why you bothered to be a fucking liar and pretend I was being hypocritical. I said Dems. do those same things multiple times in my post.

Since you posted that right after my last post, I assume it was aimed at me.

No. It wasn't. Just coincedental. When I respond to a reply, I respond to that person directly using the Reply option at the bottom of their response.

Ah, my mistake.