That's not an explanation. This is not how evolution theory explains stuff.
CORRECT: Features are selected because they are useful.
INCORRECT: Features occur because they are useful.
But most of the evolutionary explanations are expressed in the second way. Recognition is tightly correlated to awareness and consciousness, which in no way have been, yet, explained by evolution. Yet. Although there are voices that say that it is impossible in principle for consciousness to occur by means of mere matter.
It might be that consciousness is like 7+6 in a dice trow. No matter how many times you throw a pair of 6 faces dice, you will never get that combination.
Right now it is assumed that in the future neuroscience will show how the brain works and gives us the mind. Until then, it's an hypothesis. A belief. Not a religious belief, but part of a metaphysical view on the world, that is, there is only atoms. Not a religion, but close.
Also, I think each generation has very interesting histories to tell. But we have lost almost all of them, except for an infinitesimal very last bit.
So we don't know what has happened in hundreds of thousands of generations, from the first cordates to therapsides to primates, that could perfectly explain it all.
That's not an explanation. This is not how evolution theory explains stuff.
CORRECT: Features are selected because they are useful. INCORRECT: Features occur because they are useful.
But most of the evolutionary explanations are expressed in the second way. Recognition is tightly correlated to awareness and consciousness, which in no way have been, yet, explained by evolution. Yet. Although there are voices that say that it is impossible in principle for consciousness to occur by means of mere matter.
It might be that consciousness is like 7+6 in a dice trow. No matter how many times you throw a pair of 6 faces dice, you will never get that combination.
Right now it is assumed that in the future neuroscience will show how the brain works and gives us the mind. Until then, it's an hypothesis. A belief. Not a religious belief, but part of a metaphysical view on the world, that is, there is only atoms. Not a religion, but close.