Well it has a lot to do. We're not born with fully functional minds, we learn our mental skills as we grow. Learning shapes the very concepts we use for representing sensations and thinking. Consciousness is not something 'secreted' in the brain, it's the loop made of 'agent + environment', where the purpose is to maximise rewards. There is no consciousness in itself, just consciousness of something. Learning is what ties together agent and environment, it's the building force of consciousness.
And Chalmers is a dualist that believes there are two realms that can't be explained, and that's ridiculous in this day and age. He's the worst philosopher of consciousness because he led a generation astray with sterile dualist concepts - and where has he led philosophy? Nowhere, there was no insight, no discovery after the "hard problem" because, darn, it's "hard" which is another word for dualism today.
I take Tononi and Dennett over Chalmers any day, but I prefer Reinforcement Learning over all of them as my intuition pump with regard to consciousness. Philosophy is mired in a swamp of bad concepts that are almost useless, they should just use a learning based terminology which is so much more effective. Engineers and experimental scientists create bots that beat humans at Go, a game that can't be brute forced, and they don't realise they've been outrun in their 2000 year marathon by a hundred year old concrete approach. The difference is that RL has the right concepts and philosophy uses extremely refined but ultimately useless concepts. They've realised words don't mean anything in the absolute sense (they all rely on each other, cyclic referential) and are just part of a game, but are still neck deep in useless words instead of using evolutionary and RL concepts to concretely model consciousness and the game it plays.
And Chalmers is a dualist that believes there are two realms that can't be explained, and that's ridiculous in this day and age. He's the worst philosopher of consciousness because he led a generation astray with sterile dualist concepts - and where has he led philosophy? Nowhere, there was no insight, no discovery after the "hard problem" because, darn, it's "hard" which is another word for dualism today.
I take Tononi and Dennett over Chalmers any day, but I prefer Reinforcement Learning over all of them as my intuition pump with regard to consciousness. Philosophy is mired in a swamp of bad concepts that are almost useless, they should just use a learning based terminology which is so much more effective. Engineers and experimental scientists create bots that beat humans at Go, a game that can't be brute forced, and they don't realise they've been outrun in their 2000 year marathon by a hundred year old concrete approach. The difference is that RL has the right concepts and philosophy uses extremely refined but ultimately useless concepts. They've realised words don't mean anything in the absolute sense (they all rely on each other, cyclic referential) and are just part of a game, but are still neck deep in useless words instead of using evolutionary and RL concepts to concretely model consciousness and the game it plays.