awehttam comments on Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model - LessWrong

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Comment author: awehttam 08 August 2010 01:14:04AM 0 points [-]

|It's just not obvious that this is the raison d'etre for consciousness, esp. in light of lacking a plausible evolutionary path for this|

The debating tactic you highlight would fit a public-relations function for the unconscious nd . And a public relations facility; explaining to others one self's unconscious-driven behaviour could be of survival value among humans, yes?