RE: Theory number 3.
October 28, 2012 at 12:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2012 at 1:09 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 28, 2012 at 12:52 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I think it's more like "where does/did consciousness come from, since evolution can't possibly explain it". That's my limited understanding, of course.
Okay, so it's more specific than I thought but that's still a question of why it exists. "Why does consciousness exist?", "Because evolutionary processes caused it to exist" is still an answer to the question.
(October 28, 2012 at 12:52 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: But such a step is complex, and needed direction (from DNA). The complexity doesn't allow it to be simply by one step of mutations.
Why can't one genetic step lead to consciousness? Consciousness is generally speaking complex, apparently (complex in what way?), but the first type of consciousness that ever formed may have been very simple. And even if the first ever type of consciousness was complex, why does that imply that it can't have happened in one genetic step? Aren't genes complex? Even atoms are complex when you think about it! They can be broken down to many smaller parts and then there's the quantum world behind all that too, and that's really complex!
