Riley Goodside @goodside
Riley Goodside (@goodside) · May 4:
Imagine if the answer to Dawkins' question ("Why wasn't natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?") is that humans are conscious for reasons analogous to why our eyes have blind spots—i.e. consciousness is a bad idea and a more competent God would have made zombies.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A philosophical one-liner riffing on Dawkins' hard-problem-of-consciousness question, suggesting consciousness might be an evolutionary spandrel/bug rather than adaptive. Relevant to the archive's recurring theme (from "Minds Kindling") that "the hard problem is a DEFENSE MECHANISM" and that self-referential traits may be bugs rather than features.
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