(October 28, 2012 at 11:12 am)Stimbo Wrote: Or semi-conscious, to varying degrees. Consciousness isn't an all-or-nothing condition.
Whatever degree of consciousness, semi, 1%, whatever...there has to be a step that would go from no consciousness. But at the same time, there needs not only be tons of steps but natural selection should be guiding it towards consciousness (semi or 1% or any level of consciousness).
What I mean by physical/biological, is that if we had no soul, it doesn't mean necessarily that consciousness could have arisen from evolution process.