Awareness is a theater for the Mind (Week 6 Post 2)

How does philosophy help in our global struggle for existence? Why would weevolve toward awareness when survival for most species is predicated uponunconscious instincts? What advantage does self reflective consciousness conferthat would allow it to emerge and develop over time? Darwin's DNA explains theevolution of consciousness as the result of the confusion of a neural systemconfronted with its own dissociation. The questions that arise inside of usarise because of the architecture of our brain and has little to do with realityand more to do with our evolutionary needs.The brain plays out possibilities, cause and effect, action and reaction fromthe safety of within so it is better prepared to face these possibilities in therealm of reality. While it is nice to think of consciousness as an independententity that exists before and after we do, in reality all we, as humans arelooking for is the easiest path to the four F's (f***, food, flee, and fight).It is ultimately all about survival. Daydreams, imaginings, nightmares, all runthrough possible scenarios in our mind so we can better prepare our reactions inorder to better meet these ends.