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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the causal reason may very well be that it would have needed some stupid common ancestor that lived in a pool of slimy water during Triassic period to have a slightly differently folded stupid fuckoff-tubulin in its stupid neurons so that millions of years down the line
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a "qualia-less intelligence" evolutionary pathway would be possible for its descendants.
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Eusocial behaviour is adaptive. Mirror neurons let you model humans. Now apply to self, so you can do game theory. Voila, you are modeling you having qualia, hence you have qualia.
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