Natural Selection Seems Insufficient

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Assorted questions:  Can things be more than the sum of their parts?

If not, how did God's nascent consciousness improve itself?

If so, can a sum made up of dead particles be greater than the dead particles themselves?  If so, what prevents abiogenesis or consciousness evolving?

Consciousness is a mystery filled with an amazing variety of experiences such as:
- Self-awareness
- Taste, touch, smell, sight, sound, vision
- emotions
- humor 
- perception of beauty
- conscience
- memory
- free will

I don't know why anything exists. It's a mystery. Similarly, I don't know why consciousness exists, and why it offers such a rich/diverse variety of experiences.

SIMILARLY, to answer your question, I don't know why it can develop, that is, I don't know why each of the experiences in the above list can become more acute/ distinct over time.
That's part of the mystery.

But for me, an increase in acuteness is a possibility easier to swallow than the whole notion of dead particles transitioning to consciousness, PRECISESLY  because consciousness is so rich/ complex/ involved. 

Just my opinion, I can't prove it.

So we’ve seen.

Boru