Comment by awehttam on Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model · 2010-08-08T01:14:04.548Z · LW · GW

|It's just not obvious that this is the raison d'etre for consciousness, esp. in light of lacking a plausible evolutionary path for this|

The debating tactic you highlight would fit a public-relations function for the unconscious nd . And a public relations facility; explaining to others one self's unconscious-driven behaviour could be of survival value among humans, yes?