The Adaptive Advantage of Feeling

If you are aware of how well or badly you're doing in terms of bringing yourself back into homeostasis, then you can predict your device before it's too late. That feeling has had a very substantial biological causal consequence, which is that you stayed alive rather than died. It bestows the capacity for choice. Otherwise, all that the organism could do is stochastic random behavior. But remember, it comes at the cost of mass extinction.

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