Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis

[DLJ]

That all depends on what one considers consciousness to be.  I think you need to decide upon a working definition.

Yes, its roots are in the early molecular structures that formed proto-cells (everything is) but consciousness as a system (of pattern recognition and event detection) is a fairly recent evolutionary adaptation.

That is what I'm saying though, It doesn't matter how concise or how abstract you get with your definition. Whatever you think your conscious is, is an evolutionary advancement billions of years in the making
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Of course. But what I'm saying is don't equate an abacus with a pocket calculator with the Hubble telescope.

When we were prokaryotes we didn't have the hardware yet or the software or the VMware.