(March 12, 2022 at 5:01 pm)The L Wrote:(March 10, 2022 at 7:06 am)Jehanne Wrote: Consciousness also aides with survival and the passing of one's genes, except when it comes to nuclear weapons and catastrophic climate change.
I don't think it does. We could act as if we were conscious without being conscious. Consciousness itself doesn't seem to add anything useful.
Hence why I think it's a by-product.
I'm talking about human consciousness.
Consciousness itself, of any form, runs a lot deeper. Alongside evolution rather than subsequent to it, IMO.
Are you saying that the invention/discovery of fire was an unconscious act? And, after Homo erectus discovered fire 2 Mya, what did such do for evolution of bigger Homo brains?
