On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>wrote:
> I think your position is ridiculous. Evolution has clearly invested a lot > of energy into “free will” > Can not comment, don't know what ASCII sequence "free will" means. > > “self-awareness”, and other qualia that characterize conscious existence. > Well, I have self awareness and other qualia, so I know that Evolution did it at least once, and maybe I'm not the only one, maybe it did it billions of times. But I also know that all Evolution can see is behavior and it can't see those qualities any better than we can see self awareness in others. Therefore I conclude that self awareness and other qualia MUST BE a byproduct of intelligent behavior. > Evolution did not go through all the trouble and to expend all the energy > our species expends on creating this sensation within ourselves – whether > it is actually real or an elaborate (and evolutionarily costly adaptation) > to carefully create this deeply layered and highly convincing illusion of > free will within us – for no reason at all. > If free will were a illusion I would have no problem with it whatsoever! Illusions are a perfectly a legitimate phenomena worthy of study, but "free will" is not nearly as interesting because "free will" is just a noise made by the mouth. > > The brain consumes a lot of energy > And apparently Evolution decided that the increased energy usage was worth it because the resulting intelligent behavior brought more genes into the next generation than a brain that used less energy and was therefore less intelligent. And consciousness just went along for the ride. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
