Veit proposes that consciousness arose as a means for organisms to deal with what he calls pathological complexity. We assume that what he has in mind is the kind of complexity that arises in coevolution and evolutionary arms races, say of the predator–prey kind, which became acute with the evolution of large, image-forming eyes, hence his reference to the Cambrian Explosion. (Merker et al. 2022, p. 55)

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  Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory

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• consciousness concept
• pathological complexity thesis concept
• Cambrian explosion event