I think that’s very silly and obviously consciousness helps us steal boats.
Assuming you mean the evolved strategy is to separate out a limited amount of information into the conscious space, having that part control what we communicate externally, so our dirty secrets are more safely hidden away within our original, unconscious space.
Essentially: Let outwards appearance be nicely encapsulated away, with a hefty dose of self-serving bias ad what not, give it only what we deem it useful to know.
Intriguing!! Feels like a good fit with us feeling and appearing so supposedly good always and everywhere, while in reality, we’re rather deeply nasty as humans in so many ways.
On the one hand: I find it on one hand intuitively able to help explain a split into two layers, conscious and sub-conscious processes, indeed.
On the other hand:If the aim is to explain ‘consciousness as phenomenal consciousness’ (say if we’re not 100% illusionists): I don’t see how the separating into two layers would necessarily create phenomenology something something, as opposed to more ‘basic’ information processing layers.
I had a pretty different interpretation—that the dirty secrets were plenty conscious (he knew consciously they might be stealing a boat), instead he had unconscious mastery of a sort of people-modeling skill including self-modeling, which let him take self-aware actions in response to this dirty secret.
If the layers were totally separate, it would be too expensive to run them both at the same time. I’m claiming the hack evolution figured out is that the “what does social reality rule is happening here?” component is implemented as a self-model of the rest of the instincts.
Assuming you mean the evolved strategy is to separate out a limited amount of information into the conscious space, having that part control what we communicate externally, so our dirty secrets are more safely hidden away within our original, unconscious space.
Essentially: Let outwards appearance be nicely encapsulated away, with a hefty dose of self-serving bias ad what not, give it only what we deem it useful to know.
Intriguing!! Feels like a good fit with us feeling and appearing so supposedly good always and everywhere, while in reality, we’re rather deeply nasty as humans in so many ways.
On the one hand: I find it on one hand intuitively able to help explain a split into two layers, conscious and sub-conscious processes, indeed.
On the other hand: If the aim is to explain ‘consciousness as phenomenal consciousness’ (say if we’re not 100% illusionists): I don’t see how the separating into two layers would necessarily create phenomenology something something, as opposed to more ‘basic’ information processing layers.
I had a pretty different interpretation—that the dirty secrets were plenty conscious (he knew consciously they might be stealing a boat), instead he had unconscious mastery of a sort of people-modeling skill including self-modeling, which let him take self-aware actions in response to this dirty secret.
If the layers were totally separate, it would be too expensive to run them both at the same time. I’m claiming the hack evolution figured out is that the “what does social reality rule is happening here?” component is implemented as a self-model of the rest of the instincts.