On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 18:37:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
If you consider that our brains evolved, and self-awareness was
a result of evolution, then self-awareness presumably offers
some sort of survival benefit.
Following that line of reasoning, self-awareness becomes a real
phenomenon with a scientific basis.
I do not consider that self-awareness is result of an evolution.
I am not even sure it actually exists. It is a very abstract term
with no clear meaning, using it just obfuscates the idea.
