[Guille]

Consciousness is too big to be understood by itself, and too small to understand itself (paradoxical and yet true). I think consciousness derived from the realizing of humans that they are and exist and have difference and virtues. When we recognized ourselves as individuals and personalities, apart from the sub-conscious awareness all animals have of being an example of a species. According to paleontologists and anthropologists, this came from those men that weren't the strong ones of the group, or leaders, but that were funny and mysterious. These two properties took them to develop personalities.