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It is a hack alright. A very beautiful hack, refined in hundreds of thousands of iterations, with a very high price. > to allow introspection Evolution doesn’
by otikik 4y ago
It is a hack alright. A very beautiful hack, refined in hundreds of thousands of iterations, with a very high price.
> to allow introspection
Evolution doesn’t do things “to anything”. It repeats what works, and kills the rest. Our brains have allowed us to adapt to the changes in the environment better than the rest. Conscience came with the pack. It might not have an actual “purpose”- it could be an “appendix”.
My personal belief is that consciousness started as the self-preservation instinct that most animals have, and we developed introspection as a way to strengthen our ties to other members of our family or tribe. And then we “won” (for now)
- sho_hn 4y ago> It is a hack alright. A very beautiful hack, refined in hundreds of thousands of iterations, with a very high price. To what extent does this describe evolution? :-)
- otikik 4y agoThat is my description of evolution. The part that isn’t there is all negative: that it doesn’t (can’t) care about individuals. That it doesn’t (can’t) “understand” what is doing. That it doesn’t (can’t) “design”; it can only iterate. That it doesn’t (can’t) care that the intermediate result is inscrutable to us. Mostly clarifications for people who anthropomorphize the process.