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Mark Friedman is Director of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is best known for his international work on Results-Based Accountability (RBA), also known in the United Kingdom and Australia as Outcomes-Based Accountability (OBA); a framework for turning data into action. The RBA approach has been applied to improve services in over 40 US states and countries including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK. His latest book is The Origin of Consciousness: The Natural Selection of Choice-Making Systems.

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The Choice-Making Theory of Consciousness

By Mark Friedman
September 26, 2018
in :  Philosophical Foundations
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Evolutionary theory teaches us that all biological functions have precursor forms that date back to the beginning of life. There is a broad scientific consensus that consciousness is a biological function and the product of evolution. Before we can answer the question, “What is consciousness?” we must be able to answer the question: “What were its precursor forms?” This question …

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