| Wind Shlavitor said: Something that can't be explained by evolution, is : Conciousness and Free Will. |
Conciousness and free will are the same thing. You cant have a concious person without free will, nor can you have a person with free will that has no concious.
All animals with brains have forms of conciousness, but humans are obvioulsy superior in the usage of it. A group of men talking about why an apple falls from a tree is only different in scale of complexity from a group of coyotes who is planning to attack a herd of deer. Conciousness is the product of evolution and the ability of animals to respond to their environment. The unconcious brain is the part of the brain that controls activities that you dont even know you have control over. You dont control the beating of your heart, the unconcious part of the brain does that. The unconcious brain also stores information that is vital to survival, such as your immediate surroundings or tasks you do without thinking about it. The consious and unconcious brain are not entirely seperated, and you can take control of tasks that your unconcious brain does automatically, such as breathing.
The evolutionary advantage to having concious is that you can make decisions regarding your environment. A human (or even a dog) is not thinking about breathing as they go about their daily routine, but if they fall into water they use their concious brain to take control of their breathing and hold it so that they do not get water in their lungs.
