Perhaps, consciousness has purposes {consciousness, purposes}.
categories
Perhaps, without sense qualities, brain can detect only major categories. With sense qualities, brain can detect subtleties needed to recognize complex objects, such as people.
evolution
Perhaps, consciousness performs functions that help organisms get food, defend against predators, or reproduce. If consciousness has survival functions or structures, evolution can adapt it. Evolution, history, random effects, and physical laws affect adaptation, and adaptive traits are not best or perfect [Baars, 1988] [Crick and Koch, 1995] [Johnson-Laird, 1983] [Johnson-Laird, 1988] [Mandler, 2002] [Minsky, 1968] [Minsky, 1985] [Velmans, 1991] [Velmans, 1996]. If awareness and consciousness have no function, evolutionary processes cannot affect them [Cosmides et al., 1992].
needs
Perhaps, consciousness manages drives, desires, moods, and emotions.
self-knowledge
Perhaps, consciousness allows one to know what one will do next.
synapse strength
Perhaps, consciousness strengthens or modifies synapses.
no purpose
Perhaps, consciousness does not cause anything and does not have purposes.
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