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Consciousness and natural selection are linked through evolutionary theories that propose consciousness evolved as an adaptive trait, as seen in William James's view on fitness consequences [1] and the claim that complex consciousness requires population-level selection [2]. Furthermore, the scientific impact of theories regarding consciousness is often evaluated by comparing them to the historical success of Darwin's theory of natural selection [3].
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Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com 1 fact
perspectiveWilliam James proposed that the correlations between the valence of sensations and their fitness consequences are explainable by the action of natural selection on efficacious consciousness.
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimThe author posits that the transition from rudimentary consciousness to a consciousness consisting of multiple distinguishable contents likely requires natural selection acting across multiple generations at a population level, making the emergence of such complexity via fortuitous mutations vanishingly small.
(DOC) The hard problem of consciousness & the phenomenological ... academia.edu 1 fact
perspectiveThe reviewer compares David Chalmers' book 'The Conscious Mind' to Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', noting that while Chalmers' book makes the problem of consciousness profound, the reviewer doubts Chalmers' positive theory of consciousness will be vindicated like Darwin's theory of natural selection.