[Charlatan]

When we are born, we react with our new world, by reacting to new stimuli. This new stimuli makes our mind seek survival and comfort. In seeking survival we look around ourselves and see the world. Then one day we look inside of ourselves and discover the sense of self, which is called conscious. Is conscious evolutionary? I think it is, because our mind becomes consciou because of looking for something to do with self exploration - which comes from becoming familar with the world we are in. We look inside ourselves to find what ails us when we are seeking the things we need. A monkey cannot do the same because of evolution, the reactions required to arrive at self are reactions to more complex thoughts, which come from a more evolved mind. We end up with self because we look for cause, as a monkey could do, but when we loo for cause we don't look outside, we look in. Looking in makes our reactions go from "where am I", to "I am here", to "why am I here?" Why always starts off as looking for cause in food, or other essential things, then moves on to why the things we need aren't there - or are. Asking why is a way of learning what goes where, then why is self there, then what were you looking for? All thoughts are reactions, so your mind is reacting to needs, and through a rigorous path of whys, arrives by the questions of self, trying to identify all the things in the equation. Maybe a monkey knows it is there, but doesn't recognise that because it has a lazy mind, not sharp and able to compress thoughts, arriving with identity. We have identity because our mind reacts to the thoughts regarding "I", and has the capacity to do so.

So I think conscious is just a reaction based bunch of thoughts, owing to evolution our brain - the hard ware - can identify self, and then react to the self with wanting to know why is self whatever. After that it goes on to thinking why is self not like the others, why is self like self - all from reactions to other thoughts.