Why Discuss Consciousness If It Has No Causal Power?
AndrewCritchPhD · x · 2026-07-10
The post poses a philosophical question: if consciousness itself has no causal power, what exactly drives people to talk about it and claim to be conscious? It steers the debate toward the classic issue of how consciousness could have evolved to serve a functional purpose.
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