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> Because a) humans have been wildly successful, and b) the fact that our brain is inordinately expensive, so if a new class of non-conscious humans that were e
by goatlover 8y ago
> Because a) humans have been wildly successful, and b) the fact that our brain is inordinately expensive, so if a new class of non-conscious humans that were equally adept as conscious ones ever arose, they would easily outcompete us for resources.
Assuming that there's an extra cost to consciousness. The problem here is that nobody knows how to fit consciousness into the physical picture. There's clearly a correlation, but we don't know how and what that entails.
- naasking 8y agoThere's definitely a cost to consciousness if it's not some innate property of matter ala panpsychism. There's no free lunch. But at least we can agree that we don't know how it fits, but I think the attention schema theory is a great start on a mechanistic account: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00500/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0050...