The social and ecological crises that threaten mankind and our Earth force us to make a choice. The downfall of the Ego may take place in two ways: a beautiful, dignified way or a painful one, full of suffering. How consciousness evolved and how consciousness has come to affect evolutionary processes are related issues.

But both ways will take us to the same goal: the Miracle, the awakening Consciousness. One of the biggest challenges in evolutionary science is to explain the evolution of consciousness.

Subjectively, people usually think it must. The idea of human collective consciousness has been recently been looked into scientifically, yet it’s complete mechanism of action remains unclear. In the process of consciousness evolution, we add our ideas, thoughts, mental constructs, and beliefs to the collective consciousness world.

u/jcg3. However, the effects of consciousness on evolutionary processes are more general. Evolutionary psychologists study what people look for in a partner, and how these preferences may have been shaped by evolutionary pressures. 6 years ago. 56. Archived. Does consciousness confer evolutionary advantage, e.g.

Close. What is the evolutionary purpose for consciousness? helping an organism to survive or thrive? Posted by. The Ego must therefore fall, as it is against the evolutionary development of the Consciousness.

The mystery of consciousness may eventually be solved—like the mystery of life itself. The evolutionary purpose of consciousness is to help us understand the grand design of the universe, and be able to use the one thing that separates us from animals : Compassion – the ability to feel empathy for another being in pain and respond to that pain to try and help do something about it Human consciousness, like the body, is the product of biological evolution. The Ego must therefore fall, as it is against the evolutionary development of the Consciousness. EDIT: Also, would your answer change if for the sake of argument it's assumed that free will does not exist? Based on observations of other species in their natural environments, the evolutionary psychology of human mating tends to lean toward the idea that females are more selective in their partners than males.

In other words, how did it evolve and how is it beneficial? In other words, how did it evolve and how is it beneficial? What is the evolutionary purpose for consciousness? We must reach beyond our Ego-dominated mind programs, because if we fail to do that, we will eventually destroy ourselves and a large part of the world!

This is because biological consciousness–the only form of consciousness of which we are aware–is entailed by a particular, fairly sophisticated form of animal cognition, an open-ended …