"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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And you're most conscious of all when you experience conflicting emotions and your brain wants to remember the outcome of a decision
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Hence the sharpest memories of all are our regrets
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Your conscious mind is a sort of blunt hammer that your brain uses to retrain your unconscious
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You reach for a beer and your brain lights up going "Remember what happened last time?"
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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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Yeah Peter Watts writes stuff about this that gets dark
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Human consciousness as an evolutionary mistake, that we're less effective than we'd be if our consciousness were curbed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
Consciousness as the ability to model things that aren't happening that spun out of control into blind alleys
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
Modeling things that never happened can be useful for survival but feeds on itself as a parasitic process
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