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The project explores the purpose of consciousness, arguing that subjective experiences hold intrinsic value and motivate actions. By integrating philosophy and cognitive neuroscience, it investigates how consciousness influences perception and decision-making, aiming to redefine our understanding of conscious experienc…
Why would we do anything at all if the doing was not doing something to us?
In other words:
What is consciousness good for?
Here, reversing classical views according to which subjective experience is a mere epiphenomenon that affords no functional advantage, I propose that the core function of phenomenal experience is to enable subject-level valuation:
What it feels like is endowed with intrinsic value.
Thus, I argue that it is only in virtue of the fact that conscious agents experience things a…
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