Question by Lindsey H: What is the origin of consciousness?
What is your perspective on the origin of consciousness? Do you beleive that science can make reasonable considerations on what the origin of consciousness is?
Consciousness, as in the awareness of self.
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Answer by Nick S
it’s a question cosmogenists could bang heads together over for years…but you also would need to clearly define conscioiusness…

are animals conscious? are insects? are any living things other than humans conscious?

i truly find it hard to believe we would be the only ones…but that’s just speculation and my thought, given how enormous the universe is, and thus, how unlikely it is that there is only a single planet able to support life and its evolution into more complex beings, such as walk the earth today…

but as to the origin of consciousness, i have no idea how it would be possible to specify the origin…we have a good idea how the universe started, but until we figure out how life came into being (how organic compounds combined in such a way as to allow bacteria to move, consume, and reproduce, and later evolve, and what formed all the great number of different species that have ever lived on this earth), this question is just beyond the scope of modern science…

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