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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Which implies that animals mostly don't experience consciousness? Which is weird because they clearly act like they do?
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Animals like dogs and cats are probably conscious but not all that conscious
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Which isn't necessarily saying much because human consciousness develops gradually in children
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And we're less conscious ourselves than we think we are, which is why our memories of our lives are so imperfect
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A lot of the "Gotcha" arguments about consciousness from believers in the soul are undermined by accepting it's a variable quality
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But yeah dogs and cats have memories, they learn, they just do so on a weaker level than we do
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Dogs you can tell put together more of a "story" of their lives than cats because of the demands of being a social species
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