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And almost all animals, including many primates, survive with out any self-awareness. So it is not necessary for survival. Again: why self-awareness at all? Where and how did DNA become self aware? I will be waiting...
Do you think you know more than Harris? He didn't do his homework?
Most scientists are confident that consciousness emerges from unconscious complexity. We have compelling reasons for believing this, because the only signs of consciousness we see in the universe are found in evolved organisms like ourselves. Nevertheless, this notion of emergence strikes me as nothing more than a restatement of a miracle. To say that consciousness emerged at some point in even in principle.
Most scientists are confident that consciousness emerges from unconscious complexity. We have compelling reasons for believing this, because the only signs of consciousness we see in the universe are found in evolved organisms like ourselves. Nevertheless, this notion of emergence strikes me as nothing more than a restatement of a miracle. To say that consciousness emerged at some point in even in principle.
No your religion teaches that human have something that animals don't - a rational soul - our intellect.
https://www.bahai.org/library/author...ns/9#027354461
https://www.bahai.org/library/author...ns/9#027354461
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