Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis

[The Grand Nudger]

I never understand the mystery about consciousness.

In context of this thread or Bennyboys comments? It's called an argument from ignorance. 

We don't know x, therefore y...and certainly not z.

@The "Why's?" of evolution, there is no why. If it's biologically possible, evolution can produce it. If it is selectively advantageous, it may persist. Doubting the advantage of consciousness is absurd on it;s face. Here we are. Top of the food chain. Masters of the Earth. Creatures that operate or react as simple machines stand little chance in the face of us. Even moderately less well developed examples of conscious creatures are at our whim.

I don't -just- smell a female and spread her legs. I experience love. I;m not only aware of my kin (and even plants possess kin selection)..I experience a deep bond of trust and dependancy. We can't help but see how this plays out advantageously for our species. We're surrounded by it, and even this..we subjectively experience...rather than regard it as an io address on a memory bank. It's love and dependence, deeply felt, that sends us into impossible scenarios to rescue the ones we love, rather than running an internal calculus and determining, rightfully, that the odds are slim to nil. Now, one might ask...couldn;t a programmer come up with a more, elegant, solution. Or set the defaults of the machine to do so. Maybe, IDK...but there was no programmer....and there are examples of life that seem to work in such a way that aren't as successful as we are...so, moot point? Conversely, it's anger and hatred that compel us to scorch the earth when we feel threatened. The evolutionary version of mutually assured destruction. We don't, commonly, see these as evolutionary advantages. Often enough, people consider their emotions to be a weakness, particularly when those emotions have been exploited or manipulated...but perhaps that's because we don't view ourselves as plainly for what we are. Just as commonly, we put up a wall between the rational and the emotional, as we put walls between love and dependency..and anger and hatred - forgetting or not acknowledging that they all derive from the same mechanism..and as best we know, by the same means. Similarly, we put up a wall between what we are and how we feel about what we are...between the brain and the experience...again, imo, forgetting or not acknowledging the same thing.