What's the point of consciousness? Why would we evolve to become so aware of our existence that we regularly override our instinctive fear of death and kill ourselves due to overthinking our own existence? Why evolve to write stories and produce art and music that serve no purpose other then for our amusement? Why not keep things simple and allow ourselves to have a brain that reacts purely to our basic needs like needing food, water and to mate like bugs? Is greater consciousness possible?
>>16534274Likely a consequence of something else. And humans aren't the only animals or organisms that commit suicide. Evolution has no end goal in sight or guiding hand.
>>16534274>A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily—by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn one edge toward himself.>Despite his new eyes, man was still rooted in matter, his soul spun into it and subordinated to its blind laws. And yet he could see matter as a stranger, compare himself to all phenomena, see through and locate his vital processes. He comes to nature as an unbidden guest, in vain extending his arms to beg conciliation with his maker: Nature answers no more; it performed a miracle with man, but later did not know him. He has lost his right of residence in the universe, has eaten from the Tree of Knowledge and been expelled from Paradise. He is mighty in the near world, but curses his might as purchased with his harmony of soul, his innocence, his inner peace in life’s embrace.Consciousness was a mistake
>>16534397Damn nigga I didn't want to fuck up that bad. I just wanna do right in this world.
God here, I thought it'd be really funny to create the universe in such a way that beings that naturally evolved from it would eventually be capable of perceiving the universe and fully aware of their own existence while still being mortal and permanently constrained to its laws. If you don't get the joke you just don't have a good sense of humor.
>>16534274Evolution doesn’t necessarily find the optimized way to do something. It just creates traits that work to increase survival and reproduction for a given organism population
>>16534274At this point it seems like a byproduct of our development towards collective existence and social cooperation in large populations. The race went this way, corporate totality, as a consequence of its smarter members freeing themselves from constrictive ideas of tradition and oneness with the environment as an extension of the spirit.
>>16534274Your op image low-key kinda answers your question.
>>16534468This.
The side effects of consciousness were totally irrelevant for humans until relatively recently. Recently in the big picture, we apes have been here for millions of years now. Most of that time was spend surviving and not much else.
>>16534468>>16534274>Why?No why, retard. Read a biology book and learn how life rose and how it's all a chemical chain reaction like a wildfire. Civilization and all that shit is a byproduct of learning, which is a survival trait. Migratory birds learn the routes to navigate. Frogs learn what things harm them and what doesn't.
>>16534274I think most of people are not so conscious, and I think they don't even think or overthink.And from my point of view a greater consciousness is a too huge burden
>>16534468Evolution is the act of culling, not creation towards some ideal. Neutral traits in terms of survival pass along with the positive ones.
>>16534274Consciousness is a feeling; it is itself a type of qualia, which is subjective experience, constructed by multiple parts of the brain and body working in tandem. It is also not something that goes from 0 to 1; it evolved gradually. We can experience partial forms of it (e.g., during REM sleep) and other animals likely have different iterations of the feeling since they have different brains and bodies.Why did any of us evolve to have this feeling? Well, it was probably an accidental byproduct of memory. Memory is an extremely vital survival tool that started developed at least several hundred million years ago.
>>16537126Exactly.
>>16537126It is clear that there is some kind of ideal component to biology, at the very least due to artificial influences in selection.
>>16536221Yes. You are literally the protag of the universe.
>>16539280>at the very least due to artificial influences in selectionSuch as?
