Consciousness as a way to process complex options better than "instinct" can.
Workspace / conscious thought allows imagining the future and consulting the past. Instinct makes cruder choices.
Perhaps consciousness allows a time delay that permits more complex decisionmaking. "Hold that decision!" Think it over. Instinct does not think things over.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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