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Wanting to Be Understood Explains the Meta-Problem of Consciousness
Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero
Because we are highly motivated to be understood, we created public external representations -- mime, language, art -- to externalise our inner states. We argue that such external…
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Wanting to be Understood
Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero
This paper explores an intrinsic motivation for mutual awareness, hypothesizing that humans possess a fundamental drive to understand and to be understood even in the absence of ex…