Things that think they're special and important outperform things that don't. The side effect of that is that they justify their specialness with things that ar

Things that think they're special and important outperform things that don't. The side effect of that is that they justify their specialness with things that are hard to understand, an appeal to complexity. In this case, the complexity is invented. There is no hard problem of consciousness. What we do isn't so magical, or special, from what animals, or machines, or other actors with agencies do. Consciousness is rare and beautiful, however, not magic.