> it becomes hard to articulate I read you. What I find helpful is not to trust my own internal perspective on how I think I think. Things become much clearer

> it becomes hard to articulate I read you. What I find helpful is not to trust my own internal perspective on how I think I think. Things become much clearer when I consider more neutral ground, yes, ants, chatgpts, rocks, etc. So, yes, I still wonder what would be the advantage of a conscious ant, besides hubris. > Are we just a more complex version of ants The same evolution caused humans and ants, that's all. Oak is not a version of orca. > emergent behavior This time it's a canonical thought stopper, on the level of "idiopathic disease".