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The Role of Consciousness and Pain in Regulating Behavior
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Pain is a signal that regulates behavior, telling the brain that the current behavior needs improvement. Consciousness serves to create coherence and predict the future so individuals can coordinate their actions, and suffering is a property of consciousness that affects behavior.
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Consciousness serves to create coherence in perceptual representations to coordinate actions, predict the future, and regulate behavior.
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Consciousness serves to create coherence in perceptual representations to coordinate actions, predict the future, and regulate behavior. Pain acts as a signal to modify behavior and maximize the value of perceptual representations, aligning with the purpose of consciousness.
ChapterThe Role of Consciousness and Pain in Regulating Behavior
Episode#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The behavior of a dysregulated system could worsen a situation instead of improving it, so new layers of modeling are needed to deal with this.
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The behavior of a dysregulated system could worsen a situation instead of improving it, so new layers of modeling are needed to deal with this. The discussion also touched on consciousness and the importance of understanding suffering as a property of it.