I wonder if the subjective feeling 'I think I'm conscious because I can see/feel things obviously' is accurate. That assumes that subjective experience can causally effect physical systems. That would make conscioussness more than an epiphenomenon.
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I think that subjective experience is the manifestation of a model that *does* affect our behavior, but indirectly. The model is a confabulation about how we affected the universe in the past, and used for improving future actions.
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to me the greater riddle is: when does a colony of cells believe it is one?
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It does not. Only software running on top of it does, and the trick is achieved by giving it regulation targets that strongly correlate with the fate of the cell colony.
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And I’m proud of it.
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I think the theory does not deal with these “risks” and I also think that's a big advantage. Certainly, with all the philosophical risks (like consciousness is not only a human entity, it is not necessarily the top of a complex hierarchy etc.).
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Can you rephrase what that phenomenon is? We believe we are conscious because we observe consciousness occurring. Where's the element of confusion?
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