>I find it impossible to imagine any naturally-ocurring scenario in which such any sentient species is forced by evolutionary pressure to optimise away consciousness in favour of other mental tasks.
If a person is born tomorrow, on earth, with a mutation that makes them slightly less sentient but more intelligent, they would not have any issue reproducing.
Or you could conduct this thought experiment: if chat-gpt4 were somehow installed in a robot with prompt "reproduce", do you think they would not replace humans after some time?
If a person is born tomorrow, on earth, with a mutation that makes them slightly less sentient but more intelligent, they would not have any issue reproducing.
Or you could conduct this thought experiment: if chat-gpt4 were somehow installed in a robot with prompt "reproduce", do you think they would not replace humans after some time?