Activity for Quartz2
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Is self-awareness or consciousness actually an evolutionary disadvantage? Blindsight is a first-contact Sci-Fi novel based on a group of transhumans exploring an anomaly in space and discovers a species that has great intelligence but no self-awareness. The author mentions that consciousness is a bottleneck and reduces the fitness of a species / renders a species noncompe... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |