Isn’t it logical that consciousness is a result of evolution?
From an immediate aspect it might seem logical, but it is suffering from problems with consistency and thus if you delve further deeper down into logic, it is not so obvious anymore.
What is consciousness anyway and how do you manufacture a mind?
I am sure it is impossible to produce an A.I. which is truly sentient because it is not possible to create an artificial mind which is a person. Likewise, if the human is just result of natural evolution, it would not be sentient the way it is with a projected consciousness of its own and identity, the principle of an evolved being and a manufactured one is the same and it has therefore problems with its logic.
Animals do not have a mind and they are not sentient and thus not persons, they are mere automatons, and so is a human who surrenders their mind to the body of theirs. This hints toward a separate mind and body phenomenon. Why is because man can stand above the autonomy of theirs and this should be the be logical inconsistency. But human scientists claim the human is a predictable being and you can depending on conditions in a calculation predict the behavior of a human. This is however only true if the human in question does follow their autonomy, but humans may have a way of standing above their nature as Homo sapiens, and this conflicts with being evolved animals.
What is remarkable is that absolutely no other animal on Earth shows an evolutionary progress like Homo sapiens and just Homo sapiens reached the stage it is at. If evolution in independent species knew what would make it more advanced and alike humans, they would begin to gain further advantages which they have not, they have after billions of years still retained their primitive evolutionary state.
The answer is that evolution is guided intelligently by some background phenomenon which drives evolution forward in a certain consensual direction and so this existence is not being due to coincidence and it is illogical to believe we exist due to coincidence. There is simply no counter-argument to this and it is possible to provide the necessary logic to prove this.
Sceptics like the one who posted a video on this forum criticizing "the intelligent design" works under the premise that because the world is created imperfect it cannot be led supernaturally, but what if the creator is not benevolent per our standards and created an imperfect world and a world which functions independently on its own much like a game world in a computer game?
A computer game can have its programming, but the programmer can manipulate their code on-the-fly and thus make changes as the simulation is running. Likewise our world can be directed as we go.
If now the supernatural cannot be disproved, it is logical that we are more than mere physically evolved beings and the remarkably advanced potential of our minds makes it too peculiar to be a mere coincidence. Even if we potentially were born as mere humans on Earth, we can mentally be so much better than our physical nature allows us to. If our mind is just the result of biological processes going on in our brains, we would not be able to make independent decisions, possessing free will, as long as the embodiment works as an intact organism. It is obvious the body fails if its organs are made to dysfunction and if the brain has damages the subject is not going to operate within its standard specifications. This fact does in no way invalidate that there is a separate mind which is independent from the bodily.
The parable is if you have a remote to a robot and then suddenly for some reason the robot starts to malfunction and you can no longer operate the machine satisfactorily.
Another similarity is if a person is psychotic, which psychological research I have been studying myself, the subject/patient may observe their body doing strange things but they are not themselves in control over the body's doings and they cannot feel they have done anything themselves. It has been experienced as if they were "under alien control", but actually it was the animal Homo sapiens which did act on its own independent of the mind which had no conscious contact and control over the organism.
The talk about two hemispheres and severing the link and deriving two separate individuals does by no way disprove that there is a mind over matter. The body is its own organism and the mind of ours is attached very superficially to it albeit sophisticated enough for us to be fooled we are the actual organism. The mind is furthermore as evolved entity itself, and if it is undeveloped then there is not much (Ethereal) substance to stand above matter, and this is why anyone researching on this needs to use subjects with an evolved mind in order to gain unbiased data. A person with an undeveloped, not conceived, mind will be very weak if the body falters and act according to the research showed here.
Unfortunately, a very tiny percentage of humans can claim to have an independent and evolved mind of their own, so getting qualified subjects is hard.
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