Opening this conversation up. What do you think (if anything) would happen to us behaviorally if the consciousness knob got turned down to zero? Would we be fully functional 'zombies'? In other words, is consciousness epiphenomenal, or does it play a causal role in our behavior?https://twitter.com/cognazor/status/1092649900725149697 …
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Threading this back in. Yes, behaviour would be lost trading with a rock, but so would your arms and legs and your groovy beard, and those aren't consciousness. I probably should have said, "as a matter of experience" https://mobile.twitter.com/imhinesmi/status/1092874985725665280 … 1/2
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Consciousness is where those things - memory, emotions, planning, prediction, are surfaced to be observed. I don't think we have free will, and perhaps that's the premise of this entire question.
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