For most skills, some people attain a level of art which surpasses describable taskification.
Quite right, and it reminds me of this description of the value of consciousness: it’s a way of learning. Once you’ve learned to do something unconsciously, you’ll do it far better than anyone still at the stage of acing it out self-consciously. Therefore the main evolutionary benefit of consciousness may have been the general ability to learn new skills and concepts.
I don’t remember where this is from—can someone attribute? (I’m not saying that’s the entire value of consciousness, but it sounds like reasonable.)
Quite right, and it reminds me of this description of the value of consciousness: it’s a way of learning. Once you’ve learned to do something unconsciously, you’ll do it far better than anyone still at the stage of acing it out self-consciously. Therefore the main evolutionary benefit of consciousness may have been the general ability to learn new skills and concepts.
I don’t remember where this is from—can someone attribute? (I’m not saying that’s the entire value of consciousness, but it sounds like reasonable.)