One of few things that still interest me anymore. I made my peace with my moral and societal Nihilism long ago. A guilty pleasure and excuse to check in with a few thinkers in the society I eschew like an STD for the most part.
The problem is in defining it. Julian Jaynes comes pretty close but concedes it is indistinguishable from sentience qualitatively. If you can get trough the few hundred pages lol "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" is a great read. Wombler, Wrangham and Hare "Application of the Heterochrony Framework the the Study of Behavior and Cognition"
The problem is in defining it. Julian Jaynes comes pretty close but concedes it is indistinguishable from sentience qualitatively. If you can get trough the few hundred pages lol "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" is a great read. Wombler, Wrangham and Hare "Application of the Heterochrony Framework the the Study of Behavior and Cognition"
Where there is life, there is competition for resources. Survive long enough to pass on your genes. The rest is religion.
