CCC comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong

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Comment author: CCC 15 July 2014 03:38:55PM 1 point [-]

I don't think it needs to have preferences, necessarily; I think it needs to be capable of having preferences. It can choose to have none, but it must merely have the capability to make that choice (and not have it externally imposed).