hamnox comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hamnox 21 July 2014 05:16:42PM 2 points [-]

I can almost picture it.

Implicit memories -- motor habits and recognition still work. Semantic and episodic memories are pretty separate things. You can answer some factual questions without involving your more visceral kind of memory about the experience later. Planning couldn't be totally gone, but it would operate at a much lower level so I wouldn't recommend driving...