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Consciousness exists to override a rational decision that cannot be made, substituting an emotional judgement when there is too much conflicting information.

Drawn from what Nick Lane said

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consciousness What it is for there to be something it is like to be a system, and whether that can be measured.

Can a machine be conscious?under our view: Feeling evolved to do a job: it tells an organism how it is doing and decides where reasoning stalls

What Nick Lane actually said

  1. Nick Lane Biochemist at University College London
    Do we need to have some system which is capable of overriding a rational decision which cannot be made because there’s too much conflicting information by effectively an emotional judgmental decision that just says do this and see what happens? That’s what consciousness is really doing in my view.

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