On 3/12/2015 2:47 PM, LizR wrote:
On 13 March 2015 at 10:39, John Mikes <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I don't know.
JM
PS did I promise to solve the problems? Telling one's opinion is a free
right, even
w/o being obliged to redress things. I fought against reductionists and
faithfuls,
now I simply speak my mind. J.
That's OK, of course. My problem is that I couldn't understand what you were trying to
say, so you didn't actually even manage to "tell your opinion". It just looked like
random sniping with no actual meaning. (Maybe it was?)
Anyway, my original point still stands. Consciousness may confer some evolutionary
advantage. (e.g. a sense of self may mean an organism responds to threats and so on with
greater enthusiasm that it would if operating on reflex).
Any sensible objections / refutations welcome.
I think a sense of self in the sense of having an internal map of where you are is pretty
low level consciousness. I don't think such a map is needed for enthusiasm. Enthusiasm
of reaction might be more a matter of reflexive adrenaline production. A slightly higher
level of consciousness would include a cultural map: what do others think of me? This
would be useful to animals that cooperate, e.g. wolves, dolphins,... And one way to
implement this is the model others on oneself: What would I think of me if I were in his
shoes?
But these are already well above (on the evolutionary tree) what Graziano is talking
about. He's just talking about awareness. Allocating limited resources of attention to
this rather than that.
Brent
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