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Actually, all examples of consciousness can be explained as if we're all automatons. There's nothing we do which isn't produced (so far as we know) by physical
by rladd 8y ago
Actually, all examples of consciousness can be explained as if we're all automatons. There's nothing we do which isn't produced (so far as we know) by physical (and therefore mechanistic) functions of the brain and body.
"Consciousness" is something that we experience, but it's not required to explain anything at all that's observed.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoFair enough; it would have been more accurate for me to say that bees don't necessarily have a conscious experience based on what we see.