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It is suggested that the anatomical structures which mediate consciousness evolved as decisive embellishments to a (non-conscious) design strategy present even in the simplest unicellular organisms.
The obvious and conventional wisdom shattering implication is that consciousness evolved simultaneously but independently in the first vertebrates and possibly arthropods more than half a billion years ago.
We propose instead that an array of general biological features that are found in all living things, combined with a suite of special neurobiological features unique to animals with consciousness, evolved to create subjective experience.
In my own more recent writing, such as Seeing Red, I have begun to argue that the explanation for why consciousness evolved lies in its very mysteriousness and the effect this has on our world-view.
Our knowledge of our own mortality, he suggests, is a psychological spandrel an "ineluctable consequence of consciousness evolved for other reasons".
Another possibility is that consciousness evolved even earlier in animal history and is even more widely distributed among animals, and hence has a function that is even more fundamental to animal life.
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Inconceivable opportunity arrives when mass consciousness evolves through connection to the indefinable power of Peace.
Wait…..do I? And this is how consciousness evolves - one step at a time, becoming aware of our choices, and then deciding which way we want to go.
"I believe that bringing death into consciousness, evolving our relationship with death, is one way of getting under the skin of the way we live," he says.
I'm sure he would find the Zennish play of mind-boggling ideas, like an operating system whose consciousness evolves in accord with the yogic template he elucidated so well.
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