Theory number 3.

[Edwardo Piet]

What do you mean by simple?

I'm not defining the terms here, I didn't say it was simple, I said it may be simple. My point is, how do you know it's complex? I'm not defining complexity or simplicity here.

Relative to us, yes. But it's still complex.

And one of my points was, how do you know it's complex? How do you know it's not simple? At what point does something go from "simple" to "complex"? And, complex in what way? Simple in what way?

It can happen, but not by "random" mutations.

Why not?

In other words, there is a huge difference between a concious being and non-conscious being.

How? The only difference I'm aware of is that one is conscious and the other is not.

There has to be so many mutations that work together to produce it.

Yes, but that's not to say that it all has to change at once. You could go from almost conscious to conscious and there could be hardly any difference at all apart from the fact the former is unconscious and the latter is conscious. The "work together" part here is key. One mutation may occur that when working together with some other mutations, consciousness is formed.

But random mutations in one step doesn't seem to be rational.

Why would you say that?