The 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.

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

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• The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective www.frontiersin.org Frontiers in Psychology via serper

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• natural selection concept
• consciousness concept
• mutation concept