myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Moreover, awareness can’t just be an accident, it must be an essential evolutionary ...

Moreover, awareness can’t just be an accident, it must be an essential evolutionary adaptation— critical to our survival.

My current pet theory is that a state of awareness is a means to integrate emotional states (or temporal generalizations of our degree of wellbeing) with sensory information and logical reasoning. Emotions allow the recent past to persist into our future— they smear out the present making our choices better informed— 2/