The topic of consciousness was interesting to me. I like that Smith is willing to say that he has no intelligent information to say regarding it and that there may be a simple explanation that someone else might come up with in the next fifty years. This tells me that he is not arrogant to the point that since he is unable to even begin to understand something, that others may not be able to have a lot greater understanding of that subject. It shows that he is humble in the knowledge that he has.
How can consciousness be explained by an evolutionary standpoint? I think it is the reason that we are the way we are today. The reason we have so much technology and are as advanced as we are. With consciousness we are able to contemplate problems and to try to think about what will work the best. This is different than most animals in that they function on reflexes and when a situation is past there is no need to think about it and contemplate how it could be done differently or better. Unfortunately there are not genes that bring about consciousness and no evolutionary evidence to the origin of thought and consciousness. There is, at this time, no evolutionary explanation for consciousness.
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