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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Consciousness as the ability to model things that aren't happening that spun out of control into blind alleys
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Modeling things that never happened can be useful for survival but feeds on itself as a parasitic process
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The existence of You inside your brain has already been a failure of evolution if you ever used birth control bc sex is fun for its own sake
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His book Blindsight is about the dark suspicion that we might be outcompeted by aliens that don't really feel, aren't people
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Which is the implicit premise of the zombie genre
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But he advances the theory that sociopaths and psychopaths are LESS conscious than neurotypical humans and therefore more effective
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Antisocial personality disorder comes with shit like not really regretting past actions much, not caring how you're seen by others
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He uses the imagery of "vampires" as genetically engineered hyper-predatory humans that are better at surviving than we are
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