Evolution question (consciousness)
As far as I understand, only humans are self-aware and have consciousness. Although it seems that there are no external tests to check if a particular being has consciousness (or none have been suggested so far), I don't think that the most simple organism (e.g bacteria) have consciousness. That leads me to believe that consciousness appeared in us through evolution.
But! The problem with consciousness, is that as far as I understand, a being either has it, or hasn't. There are no states in-between (correct me if I'm wrong). I also suppose that consciousness is not a simple feature, that could just randomly appear in an organism through mutation of genes. So.. how exactly did evolution come up with consciousness?
It's really the only question that stops me from disregarding some sort of a creationism theory completely.
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