But that "conscious-decision-making-process" is a lie, it's a shorthand the brain writes down after the choice was actually made
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There's actual empirical evidence of this
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And our emotions, experienced as emotions and not just raw pain/pleasure, are tied into that process
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
How does consciousness, as you understand it, assist with the making future decisions based on past ones thing?
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"Being conscious" is what happens, according to this theory, when the brain is writing down a memory for retrieval
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Turning the incredible complexity of your senses into a story you can tell to yourself again in the future
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Hence most of us aren't all THAT conscious for most of our waking lives and only become sharply conscious at moments of strong emotion
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Something your brain wants to avoid or seek out in the future
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
But that can be explained mechanistically: the amygdala records things better when emotion is strong.
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Replying to @ireneista @BootlegGirl
Sure. It's all mechanistic. I'm anthropomorphizing the unconscious mind, which is itself a fallacy (the homunculus fallacy)
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The brain is a machine evolved to survive. "You" are a byproduct of the brain's mechanisms for not getting killed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Fair enough. We aren't sure you even mean anything by consciousness that we could disagree with, then :)
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