Humans didn't have any incentive to develop 'actual' consciousness either. Evolution simply incentivized 'better adaptation to the challenges of the environment', which produced consciousness as a side-effect. But for the purpose of evolution, 'something that quacks like consciousness' would have sufficed completely.
So I'm not sure there's any additional effort involved in turning 'quasi consciousness' into actual consciousness, because they might just be the same thing. Maybe consciousness is just what it feels like to process information in a way that seems conscious from the outside.
So I'm not sure there's any additional effort involved in turning 'quasi consciousness' into actual consciousness, because they might just be the same thing. Maybe consciousness is just what it feels like to process information in a way that seems conscious from the outside.