Consciousness allows information related to hazards of the real world to be encoded in the genome within the assembly instructions for neural circuits responsible for phenomenal experience, or qualia.

Authors

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

Sources

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

Referenced by nodes (5)

• qualia concept
• consciousness concept
• phenomenal experience concept
• neural circuits concept
• genome concept