"Purpose creates the disease--and deification of purpose is offered as the cure."
Chicken vs. Egg speculation: If Zombies developed consciousness, would they then develop purposefulness?
Consciousness Levels: Life's Purpose is to survive... requires a body allowing an interaction in an environment to develop an ability to infer causal relations (interventionist theory of causation)
Level 0: Unconscious (a rock)
Level 1: Hard(?) Coded (a protozoa)[likely coded genetic (hard) AND bioelectric (soft)]
Level 2: Learning (a nematode)
Level 3: 1st order self (a housefly makes interventions in environment)
Level 4: 2nd order self (a raven makes interventions AND anticipates reactions to it)
Level 5: 3rd order self (a human makes interventions AND anticipates reactions to it, including its' own reaction; self-aware)
Paper seems to ignore the consciousness of collectivities (like digital zombies)... social groups, cellular groups, etc., consuming information/ data with no practical individual or group survival purpose other than exercising and maintaining their inter-communication media-system for the purpose of possible future collective engagement/intervention in the environment. Maybe that's the "stage" between each level above.
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