1.The mind's sole function and constitution is the creation and storage of symbolic representations of reality and experience.
... Although I find it very difficult to define what "beneficial" is within this context. What do you understand as beneficial?
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I meant it in the context of natural selection. Tho I'd say that the same biases that are beneficial to evolution also make us act in a way…
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…that is beneficial to our self (pleasure, etc) in a way that doesn't benefit fitness to selection (as long as it doesn't impair it).
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I see your point. My sense is that the more evolved the analytical mind becomes the further it diverges from the experiential mind...
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... therefore causing an evolutionary "maladaption" which does not benefit its selection and propagation in the gene pool.
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I agree with both points. I'd add that such misadaptation is actually beneficial in the short term, but also fragile; experiential is anti-f
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I.e. in your first sentence, instead of "evolved", "optimized".
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Very good point, and it is more accurate to say "optimized" instead of "evolved". How do you reconcile this though?
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It appears to me that is often what is fit for the individual consciousness runs contrary to what is fit for evolutionary fitness.
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