[ExI] There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’

[John Clark]

*David Chalmers wanted to know why the brain’s behavior is accompanied by
experience at all, but it seems to me that if Charles Darwin was right then
there can be only one answer to that question, because consciousness is the
inevitable byproduct of intelligence. That's because Natural Selection
can't directly detect consciousness any better than we can detect it in
other people, and nothing can select for something that it can't see. But
Natural Selection CAN see intelligent behavior. *

*Chalmers also claimed that even after hypothetically accounting for our
entire behavior, and for all our reports about our inner life, there would
still be an explanatory gap between brain processes and experience; and I
agree with Chalmers about that because any iterative sequence of "why"
questions will either go on forever or terminate in a brute fact, such as
consciousness is the way data feels when it is being processed
intelligently.  *


*John K Clark*

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