the internet told me radical honesty about ourselves is good that is why today i am proud to come out as a vague collection of particles whose identity as an object is entirely a perceptual artifact yet which has a subjective point of view for absolutely no discernible reason
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Have you read Blindsight by Peter Watts?
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no, i know i have to and i have bought it as a result

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Well, there doesn't need to be a reason, natural selection operates on random mutations and various idiosyncratic internal and external constraints. Qualia implementation doesn't even to be the most effective / efficient possible implementation
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i don’t even mean a teleological reason, not even a causal reason is available
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Qualia exists with or without the perceiver
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