[Marko]

Originally Posted by Mr. Nobody I view consciousness as an emergent quality of organization, biological or not. Therefore, self awareness should come in degrees in accordance with its assembled structure.

When I said consciousness, I meant „I think therefore I am“ kind of consciousness. Other living beings (plants and animals), non-biological structures can be indeed well organized and complicated, no question about that. But in this topic I wanted to concentrate on Homo sapiens consciousness, and at which point in evolution this phenomena appeared.

Originally Posted by <<>> 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

I agree with this, but again when that happened? My opinion is that this may have happened in some early society of Homo sapienses, not before because our DNA structure (although similar to many other species) is unique and therefore I don’t see any other candidate for the „ I think therefore I am“ kind of consciousness at the moment.