Consciousness confers an adaptive advantage by transferring agency to the individual, allowing them to respond more rapidly and flexibly to unpredictable events by moving outside the parameters of preprogrammed and non-consciously conditioned behavioral sequences.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Frontiers in Psychology
  The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective

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• agency concept
• consciousness concept