RE: The Philosophy of Mind: Zombies, "radical emergence" and evidence of non-experiential
April 21, 2018 at 10:28 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2018 at 10:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Seems like this has been consuming alot of your time, recently.
Personally, I would caution against any notion that consciousness does nothing and provides no benefit. There are many evolutionary pathways to flight, or any other number of functional spaces for adaptation, as well. It might be that behavior x is possible some other way (even many other ways), as it is with different types and paths to wings or flight, for example...but it would be a reach to then say that the specific manner in which a creature achieves behavior x is therefore useless.
Moths navigation is a prime example of this, despite being pointed to as a counterfactual. The phenomenon is know as transverse orientation. Though it could be that the chemical composition of some light sources release compound analogs to moth pheromone..as it does for some species and some light sources. Or maybe it's both of these things and some other thing, or, in specific species neither of these things and some other thing (caveat emptor). It's not the only behavior that seems counterproductive in a changing environment.
Personally, I would caution against any notion that consciousness does nothing and provides no benefit. There are many evolutionary pathways to flight, or any other number of functional spaces for adaptation, as well. It might be that behavior x is possible some other way (even many other ways), as it is with different types and paths to wings or flight, for example...but it would be a reach to then say that the specific manner in which a creature achieves behavior x is therefore useless.
Moths navigation is a prime example of this, despite being pointed to as a counterfactual. The phenomenon is know as transverse orientation. Though it could be that the chemical composition of some light sources release compound analogs to moth pheromone..as it does for some species and some light sources. Or maybe it's both of these things and some other thing, or, in specific species neither of these things and some other thing (caveat emptor). It's not the only behavior that seems counterproductive in a changing environment.
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