On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*> You're the one who floated a theory of consciousness based on > evolution. * > I did indeed. *>I'm just pointing out that it only shows that consciousness exists in > humans for some evolutionarily selected purpose. * > *NO!* That is exactly what it doesn't show! Consciousness has no evolutionary purpose, it couldn't have because Evolution can't even detect consciousness, its no better at it than we are at detecting consciousness in others. So consciousness must be a byproduct of something that Evolution *can* detect, like intelligence. When a architect decides to put an arch inside a rectangular enclosure he doesn't separately decide to put a spandrel in there too because it would look nice, he gets the spandrel automatically whether he wants one or not. Consciousness is a biological spandrel. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
