Andrew Cohen: Evolution means we’re part of the process that’s going somewhere. Cosmic evolution gave rise to biological evolution, [which] eventually gave rise to cultural evolution. The evolution of culture is the evolution of consciousness. The cosmic evolution eventually created the conditions that made it possible for life to emerge. From life and for life after trillions of years eventually we have the beginning of human culture. The capacity for consciousness emerged simultaneously with life. Then finally with the emergence of human beings and the beginning of human culture then we can really see that all of human history is really the documentation and history of how human consciousness has evolved and developed. So in this way of looking at evolution, I see consciousness as an emergent property within the evolutionary process as a whole. The way many people are beginning to think about it is the recognition that the capacity for consciousness, complex thinking and self reflective awareness [puts us at] the very leading edge of a process that had a beginning in time almost 14 billion years ago.
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