Rico: you're doing this all wrong. You're approaching this from the top down, instead of the bottom up. To borrow from Douglas Adams, what you're doing is taking apart a cat to find a specific something that makes it alive, then presenting the non-working cat as evidence that life can't have arisen by itself. Forget all this guff about where consciousness "comes from" - read up on emergent properties. Your mind will be blown.
Somehow though I think you prefer your strawmen to reality. They dance to your tune, don't they?
Somehow though I think you prefer your strawmen to reality. They dance to your tune, don't they?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
