Ben, you write “Do you strive for the condition of perfect, empty, value-less ghost in the machine, just for its own sake...?”.
But my previous post clearly answered that question: “I’d sacrifice all of that reproductive fitness signalling (or whatever it is) to maximize my persistence odds as a subjective conscious entity, if that “dilemma” was presented to me.”
Ben, you write “Do you strive for the condition of perfect, empty, value-less ghost in the machine, just for its own sake...?”.
But my previous post clearly answered that question: “I’d sacrifice all of that reproductive fitness signalling (or whatever it is) to maximize my persistence odds as a subjective conscious entity, if that “dilemma” was presented to me.”