Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis

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Similar sentiments are expressed by people who hold a view comparable to Dennet, in that the hard problem of consciousness isn't a hard problem, if it's a problem at all...and that the solution to that problem would be the sum total of the solutions to all of the easy problems...which they don't think are easy in the first place.  

In sum, a manufactured and perhaps even diversionary dilemma.

I think that the center of my theory is that our consciousness is our oldest evolutionary system. Whatever makes us, "living" is our consciousness. It was obviously very, very, very, rudimentary in the early stages, but so was the eye and the heart.

I know this definitely sounds like woo. But just think about it with an open mind, if my theory that consciousness is as old as life itself, then that means consciousness is what centers us to the very earliest organism. I am trying to not make it sound like god, but all of evolutionary creation would have come from that center. There has always been a force that has a need to survive. The earliest adaptations were minor and accidental, but as those accidents kept happening, slowly life was able to be more and more aware of itself and its needs, because of the evolutionary advantage.

    We know that we're here because we're lucky. Something about earth was just hospitable for life. Life appeared early on the scene, but it took a massive amount of time, just to be capable of becoming a larger organism. Consciousness was like Homer Simpson going doh, doh, doh, doh, doh, woohoo. Slowly the doh's were avoided and the woohoos were capitalized on.

   The reason why I'm so excited about this idea, is because I think it could be used as effective cognitive therapy. Part of the problem with therapy is that we're trying to take someones "mysterious" deep seeded feelings and readjust them. I think that therapist should take into consideration, the evolution of qualia when analyzing patients. Therapists are trained to try and fix mental issues by analyzing the persons life experience. But they're only analyzing this life, not the trillions of lives that got us here.

     What makes more sense, that we have mental problems, strictly because of something that happened in our short life, that is a blip of a blip of a blip on the grand evolutionary timeframe? We tend to look at the evolutionary tree mainly as a bodily evolution. But we don't consider that our cognition and consciousness have been the driving force of those bodily changes. Evolution is not a mechanism to reach an optimal point or perfection, its just simply a mechanism to keep living. I used this comparison already but I like it so here it goes again, our consciousness started out with a lemonade stand just hoping for a few quarters here and there but now its Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glenn Ross