On 10/15/2012 9:38 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I think he [Chambers] goes wrong by assuming a priori that consciousness
is
functional,
I've asked you this question dozens of times but you have never coherently answered it:
If consciousness doesn't do anything then Evolution can't see it, so how and why did
Evolution produce it? The fact that you have no answer to this means your ideas are
fatally flawed.
I don't see this as a *fatal* flaw. Evolution, as you've noted, is not a paradigm of
efficient design. Consciousness might just be a side-effect of using some brain language
modules as filters for remembering more important events, while forgetting most of them.
This would comport with Julian Jaynes idea of the origin of consciousness.
Bretn
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