I have serious doubts about evolution explaining consciousness in the ontological sense.
There are many information feedback systems present in our neurology that operate completely below conscious awareness. No good argument has been made for why some of information feedback systems "need" to be conscious. They simply don't. Evolution doesn't explain consciousness. Full stop.
That isn't to say that the process of evolution wasn't involved in the formation of consciousness. It probably was. But it was a Bob Ross "happy accident" during the development of information feedback systems and not a necessity to the formation of those systems.
There are many information feedback systems present in our neurology that operate completely below conscious awareness. No good argument has been made for why some of information feedback systems "need" to be conscious. They simply don't. Evolution doesn't explain consciousness. Full stop.
That isn't to say that the process of evolution wasn't involved in the formation of consciousness. It probably was. But it was a Bob Ross "happy accident" during the development of information feedback systems and not a necessity to the formation of those systems.
