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by AndrewKemendo 4119 days ago
>it's probably a byproduct of making an intelligence that can reason about itself and its environment.

I think this is exactly right. In fact my suspicion is that "consciousness" is an emergent property of feedback from high resolution sensors. Stated another way, it's a constant internal inventory of everything that can be controlled through the same volitional system.