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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It really frustrated me, as a side note, that this wasn't where the Mass Effect series went with the Reapers.
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As I understand, both Watts and Bioware got their ideas from Fred Saberhagen's Berserker universe.
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And the Berserkers are Reapers, pretty much exactly, but their "motivation" such as they have one is that they are simply automatons >
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Yeah I guess that wasn't interesting enough for them
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In Blindsight the protagonist asks if the alien ship evolved naturally or was built and the expert says that's a stupid question
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Everything is the result of evolutionary processes
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