Why do we subjectively experience life? Why are we not just emotionless robots?

Before developing an imagination beings are unable make decisions based on the future. Without an imagination you can’t plan an offensive, or calculate strategies to avoid potential dangers. To do this you literally need the ability to imagine potential future scenarios. All creatures without an imagination develop emotions which enable them to react to potential futures without the ability to imagine futures, using only information they have gathered in the past.

For example:

In the form of instincts, the spiders body has learnt that when big moving shapes are close, they will often get hurt. When the spiders eyes see these big moving shapes, the spider has developed the instinctual bodily response that we would experience as fear. The spider can then react to the potential threat without the brain functions that enable them to calculate potential futures.

Calculating one defensive move after another can be achieved with emotions, but without an imagination the creature can’t: design complex strategies. Can’t percieve how it’s own actions will effect external phenomenon. It can’t comprehend how to effect the actions of other decision making beings.

On the day this spider evolves to have an imagination, it will be able to plan the future and so will have no essential need for emotions, but the emotions don’t just disappear instantly. The body still tries to communicate all the lessons it’s learnt over the eons to the conscious mind.

Are beings without an imagination conscious?

No. Conscious beings are able to select whether or not to take actions.

Lower tier decision makers, like spiders, trees, and robots, are all aware but they are not conscious.

If a girl spends her whole life in a black and white room, and then experiences colour she is overjoyed. Why is this?

Her body remembers colour from her ancestors past lives. The body has many lessons it’s been ready to teach the conscious mind about colour. Like: Red is scary. Anytime a being consciously understands things their body already knows the body grants the being a congratulatory pleasant feeling to communicate that they are performing the function for which they were created.

You could say that the whole reason we have a conscious mind is TEACH the body how to better strategise. Before we can do this we first need to consciously LEARN all the things the body already knows. As usual, to show us we are doing something good for the body, every time we learn a piece of this puzzle we are granted a feeling of enlightenment by the body.

To teach the body means that the mind and body will often disagree, whenever this happens it is uncomfortable for the mind. If the conscious mind pushes through the pain and continues on its course the body accepts that this is a lesson worth learning and so tries to adapt. The body builder will push his muscles through the pain, the body then adjusts by building more muscle.

As a person learns to unconsciously take actions they are directly teaching the body which strategies to use. Problems can occur when the conscious mind teaches the body an unconscious strategy that doesn’t make sense in certain situations. When facing those situations the ever loyal body follows the lessons the conscious mind taught it, and so tries to make the wrong move. If the conscious mind tries to interfere the negative emotion is again experienced, this time so that it can block the conscious mind calculating a strategy rather than stopping the bodybuilder taking an action. The only way to avoid this negative feeling is to find the perfect way to strategise...

... That is the goal of the body. Finding this strategy and teaching the body is what we evolved an imagination for. But this is completely wrong. This is a mistake of the body. The body makes decisions only based on the past, it only strategises using memory, and so it thinks you need to memorise some perfect strategy. It cannot comprehend the true path to perfection -

The best solution for a particular situation doesn’t exist, because no two situations are the same. The body has sent you in search of the wrong thing. Instead of learning strategies, we must only learn how to strategise. This information is already known to the body. It taught the brain how to do it. And so all we actually have to do to advance in strategic ability is remove all our bodies trust for all strategies.

This means we have to face all our negative feelings. We have to ‘overcome’ all our physical ‘weaknesses’. We don’t have to unteach the body every strategy its learned, we just need to remove the trust in said strategy, so that we can make all our decisions in real-time. With no strategies pre-programmed into the body, the body needs communicate no lessons to the brain so you will experience perfect peace.

Trust for strategies stack up on a being from when their very first ancestors first glanced at the light. Billions of years worth of memorising strategies later and the being is able to imagine future scenarios. Once you can imagine things, you develop yourself by deleting all the trust in alll the strategies your body has learnt over the eons, replacing all the automatic functions with conscious functions.

... Shall I go on? It all starts to get a little “out-there” now. I’d start talking about decision makers becoming Gods.

(I really don’t know what I’m meant to do with this information. Its probably obvious that I never studied psychology or anything. I’m just a poker player from the streets who mapped out the mind. Any advice be much appreciated?)