There's actual empirical evidence of this
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if we're talking about something purely mechanistic, we think this is pretty accurate :)
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And the ability to remember that causal chain on a level more complex than dogs or cats requires the ability to run that sim in your head
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And the ability to mentally "go through" events that aren't actually happening is close as we can tell what "consciousness" is
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but conciousness also leads to irrelavent actions. like "im gonna raise my hand over my head just for fun". Unconscious self wouldn't bother
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So, that's the sense in which Peter Watts's _Blindsight_ used "consciousness", but we think that it's confusing to conflate those
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