William Clifford argued that evolution cannot involve an enormous jump where an entirely novel property, such as consciousness, is introduced, as it is impossible to identify a specific point in the line of descent where such an event would occur.

Authors

• Person: William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition)

Sources

• Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• consciousness concept
• evolution concept