NO COMPLEXITY THRESHOLD FOR A PHASE TRANSITION INTO FELT FUNCTION -- AND THE WATCHMAKER IS BLIND TO FEELING TOO

Darwinian evolution is, unproblematically, a causal, functional process. Survival, reproduction, behavior, behavioral skills, learning -- all of these are unproblematically functional. But the explanatory gap is about explaining how and why some functions are felt. Feeling does not -- and cannot, on pain of telekinetic dualism -- confer any functional advantages of its own. It merely dangles, inexplicably, and ineffectually. ("Complexity"won't help at all either. What's the functional complexity threshold for a "phase transition" into felt function?)