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I'll go further. It IS gratuitous to have experiences. Our preconscious mind could function without the conscious one. In fact, it does so often. You ...

Humans behave as evolutionary forces molded us, but being conscious of what we're doing, experiencing it, seems gratuitous.

But consciousness is merely observational. The actual activity that means anything and/or results in anything like actions is pre-conscious and isn't ...

Consciousness is helpless to do anything. All of our actual thinking (assessing, planning, reacting) goes on in the preconsciousness before we even be...

I don't see why humans lacking consciousness (having experiences) couldn't function in the world much as an intelligent robot would. (The zombie termi...

The only actions we take which are instant are reflexes, which are REALLY decoupled from consciousness!

Do we need to live? Apart from suicide, we have no choice in the matter. Anyway, explain how your question relates to answering mine. I'm drawing a bl...

I gather that you disagree with some of the things I said, but did you at any point explain why we need to be experiencing the world to function? Why ...

I don't think anyone of note believes that the conscious mind micromanages sensory input to the degree you imply, making the pre- or sub-conscious min...

Yes, our perception is limited. Limited to what the pre-conscious mind—which is actively filtering our sensory input and making the actual decisions—g...

You're not wrong, but I'm asking you to suppose AI proceded from there to the next level. Japan is already producing some remarkably (creepily) realis...

So, a sophisticated Turing Human couldn't function simply in terns of executing a program, but we'd have to give such a human the capacity to have exp...

You wrote: Firstly not every decision has been demonstrated as temporally decoupled - those decision experiments are for in-the-moment predictions usi...

No, you miss my point entirely. I'm asking why we are conscious when all of our thoughts and activities originate on a pre-conscious level. Consciousn...

Sentience is there prior to conscience. Something in the pre-conscious selects what becomes part of our experience. My definition of consciousness is ...

I'll make this short and sweet, as is my preference (hoping you've read my prior thoughts on responding to lengthy posts), so I won't respond to every...

Thoughts and decisions seem to be made pre-consciously before we become conscious of them. Ditto for actions. That implies that consciousness is inact...

For reasons I outlined above, I don't respond to bedsheet posts point-by-point, so let me take this approach: Remember that I'm more or less granting ...

For me, one of the basic factual issues is that there's a lot of evidence that the active mind is pre-conscious. That, for example, when we decide to ...