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Abstract:
As an archaeologist my interest is not with consciousness as
raw sensation, but with high level, access or reflective
consciousness-consciousness in terms of thoughts about our own
thoughts and about our feelings; consciousness in terms of
knowing about one's own mind. This is quite different from
consciousness in terms of being and feeling that I guess is the
root the matter: those roots are buried much too deep in our
evolutionary past for an archaeologist to find; they may go back
way before the first hominid like creature appeared on the earth
perhaps as Stuart Hameroff (1998) suggests to the Cambrian
explosion itself. As an archaeologist concerned with just the
last 6 million years of evolution I have what might be the
trivial problem to address, no more than the twigs, the buds and
then the final flowering of consciousness.
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