@PrettyGnosticMaschine my intuition tends toward biology. Cells have stress response mechanisms. It suggests that even without consciousness there is a need to model inside and outside for survival. The stress response signaling molecules are the same as those associated with human emotions. Evolution doesn't invent new things, just reuses.

In biology the system for modeling the world may be the system of modeling self.

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