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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Replying to @chaosprime
you have a subjective view because it allows for an versatile IPC bus to be implemented in a neurobiological substrate, and was thus selected for. It may very well be not the first time evolution produces this capability (dep. on how well ant mirror test results replicate)
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enh no apparent reason why the same system without qualia wouldn’t work just as well, or why the system inescapably produces qualia
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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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better ones just simply failed to happen because necessary mutations never happened, the end.
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(also, maybe "qualia" is a necessary property of all sufficiently complex IPC buses that offer introspection capabilities, and at some point the motherfucking dbus will finally feel pain, and I will be able to have vengeance upon it)
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