<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Turing Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker"^^ . " Many special problems crop up when evolutionary theory turns, quite naturally, to the question of the\nadaptive value and causal role of consciousness in human and nonhuman organisms. One problem is that -- unless we are\nto be dualists, treating it as an independent nonphysical force -- consciousness could not have had an independent adaptive\nfunction of its own, over and above whatever behavioral and physiological functions it \"supervenes\" on, because evolution\nis completely blind to the difference between a conscious organism and a functionally equivalent (Turing Indistinguishable)\nnonconscious \"Zombie\" organism: In other words, the Blind Watchmaker, a functionalist if ever there was one, is no more\na mind reader than we are. Hence Turing-Indistinguishability = Darwin-Indistinguishability. It by no means follows from\nthis, however, that human behavior is therefore to be explained only by the push-pull dynamics of Zombie determinism, as\ndictated by calculations of \"inclusive fitness\" and \"evolutionarily stable strategies.\" We are conscious, and, more important,\nthat consciousness is piggy-backing somehow on the vast complex of unobservable internal activity -- call it \"cognition\" --\nthat is really responsible for generating all of our behavioral capacities. Hence, except in the palpable presence of the\nirrational (e.g., our sexual urges) where distal Darwinian factors still have some proximal sway, it is as sensible to seek a\nDarwinian rather than a cognitive explanation for most of our current behavior as it is to seek a cosmological rather than an\nengineering explanation of an automobile's behavior. Let evolutionary theory explain what shaped our cognitive capacity\n(Steklis & Harnad 1976; Harnad 1996, but let cognitive theory explain our resulting behavior. "^^ . "2001" . . . "Amsterdam: John Benjamins"^^ . . . "Evolving Consciousness"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "G."^^ . "Mulhauser"^^ . "G. Mulhauser"^^ . . "J."^^ . "Fetzer"^^ . "J. Fetzer"^^ . . "Stevan"^^ . "Harnad"^^ . "Stevan Harnad"^^ . . . . . . "Turing Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker (HTML)"^^ . . . "harnad98.turing.evol.html"^^ . . . "Turing Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #1615 \n\nTuring Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Evolution" . . . "Cognitive Psychology" . . . "Evolutionary Psychology" . .