From Ryan Shirlow
An internal narrative for social benefit doesn’t actually require consciousness: it could simply be facilitated by a collaboration between unconscious processes. In that case we would be a species of zombie (in the philosophical not the filmic sense).
We are still left wondering why we have a sense of self that is exquisitely and individually felt. I am more attracted to the suggestion that consciousness is some kind of innate potential of very complex material systems, processing information in a recursive fashion.
Leeds, UK
