Is Your Consciousness an Epi Phenomenon?

If your experience of yourself as a choosing agent is ultimately an adaptive illusion, why would it be adaptive to have that thing if that thing doesn't affect causality at all? And what is the weird metaphysics of how first person pops out of third person? David chalmer speaks about it in a very interesting, good way when he says, o case, hev got a bunch of atoms, they're non experiencial. An you arrange em in a particular way, and experience pops out of it. If my temology is measure shet and then de math across the stuff that i measured, i'm going to come to a belief in that reality is measurable. But on the