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What are the survival advantages of consciousness?
It is known that our brains make our decisions for us before we are consciously aware that the decisions have been made, and that our brains "PhotoShop" what our eyes see before letting our consciousness see it. It would seem as if our consciousness is just tagging along for the ride--except that brain power is extremely expensive. By my understanding, evolution would not tolerate wasting brain power on a freeloader. We must *need* consciousness and qualia for *something*. So what role does consciousness play? What edge do the qualia of our senses and experiences provide?
Its not exactly like that. What happens is that some functions that are required to be extremely fast, reflexes like when you touch something really hot and you immediately move your hand away are located in your spinal medulla. This is because otherwise you would take a while to think hmm this is hot, which is not good. About the 'photoshoping' actually what happens is that the brain tries to recognize certain patterns that are familiar to it like shapes (human faces, human sillouettes, geometric shapes, etc) and it sort of finishes the image for you automaticly, this is WAY faster than if it simply let your brain analyse it "pixel by pixel" because it would take hours to just recognize a face. Unfortunately this system can be fooled sometimes.
Consciousness is there to allow us to reason, if you just had your reflexes you wouldn't be able to do many things, or if you just trusted your visual cortex you would think all the photos or the images you see in a mirror ar actual people.
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