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The experience of being a self is a useful unified format for conscious experiences that brings together a vast amount of information about the world in a way that’s useful to guide your behavior.
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Therefore consciousness provides a very efficient way for the organism to guide its decision making and its behavior in ways that are best suited basically to keeping the organism alive over time.
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The consciousness serves the basic biological imperative to stay alive that goes all the way down in your body, even down to the level of individual cells.
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