The Origins of Consciousness or the War of the Five Dimensions
Biological Theory August 25, 2022 Walter Friedrich Veit 21 citations
The goal of this article is to break down the dimensions of consciousness, attempt to reverse engineer their evolutionary function, and make sense of the origins of consciousness by breaking off those dimensions that are more likely to have arisen later. A Darwinian approach will allow us to revise the philosopher’s concept of consciousness away from a single “thing,” an all-or-nothing quality,...