Unpleasant sensations are associated with fitness threats, and pleasant sensations with fitness rewards, because individuals learn during development to interpret sensations associated with those threats or rewards as bad or good, rather than because natural selection has harnessed intrinsic causal powers of the sensations.

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  Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness

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