Jost to introduce another point of view about consciousnees. The one that I think its right:
According with evolutionary Psychology, Consciousness evolved as an adaptation to social life. Broadly specaking, non social animals are unconscious and selfless. In social life, before self awareness, other awareness evolved. Other awareness is necessary to optimize interactions with other members of the group. for this purpose, other- awareness functionality idientiifies individuals and register past interactions with each individual. Wen social interactions were more sophisticated, self awareness evolved as a response to others' other-awareness: If other individuals have a detail register of my behaviour, I can optimize my interaction with them if I am aware of what the others expect from me. For this purpose, I must be aware and I must register, whathever I do that may affect to others. So I may unconsciously pick up a donut from the refrigerator and not even notice it, but I´m well aware of it when I´m fatty and my wife is looking. Self conscious supervision of our acts is not for free. it adds an extra overload in the brain and in the way we do things that is visible to others. If the other that is looking is very important for us, we can experiment seizures. Conversely, the absence of self awareness is experimented as flowing. To complete the picture, I must say that the awareness of spiritual beings that continuously supervise us is a further social instinct that make use of the self supervision machinery. This avoid machiavelic behaviours that may be deleterious for the group Of course a machine can be designed to have such computational self awareness, but the question of if real self awareness is still open. On Jul 1, 1:23 pm, selva kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Is consciousness causally effective ? > > I found this question in previous threads,but I didn't find a answer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
