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That depends on your perspective. I could argue that the consciousness merely attributes these actions to itself. The consciousness could be a passive observer,
by hhjinks 4y ago
That depends on your perspective. I could argue that the consciousness merely attributes these actions to itself. The consciousness could be a passive observer, tricking itself into believing it is the cause behind the actions of the meat computer it observeres.
Then again, that argument doesn't sit well with the evolution argument. If we assume consciousness is a fitness advantage, then it must have some effect on the organism's behaviour.
- strogonoff 4y agoYes, a consciousness solely for the purposes of post-rationalisation seems quite redundant and to me raises more questions that it solves. I don’t subscribe to physicalism since it strikes me as clumsy and inelegant. A consciousness arguing for physicalism is denying the existence of the only thing it has direct access to and granting objective reality to something it may have well conjured up.