From: dnomhcir@gmx.com   
      
   oldernow  writes:   
      
   >> Some theorize that the purpose of consciousness is to allow us to do   
   >> psychology, i.e. to have some insight into what it is like to be   
   >> someone else. So in order to describe my own thoughts, imaginations,   
   >> even hallucinations to someone else, I need to be conscious of   
   >> them. I need to look at them objectively and imagine them as they   
   >> could be someone else's.   
   >   
   > But what is all that conceptuality - i.e. hammering so much greater a   
   > reality into gobs of tiny little notions - accomplishing?   
      
   It is helping to understand what consciousness is, why it exists, where   
   we are likely to find it, and how we recognise it.   
      
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