{"id":195206,"date":"2024-08-25T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/self-awareness-might-not-have-evolved-to-benefit-the-self-after-all"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:38:09","slug":"self-awareness-might-not-have-evolved-to-benefit-the-self-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/self-awareness-might-not-have-evolved-to-benefit-the-self-after-all","title":{"rendered":"Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit The Self After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-awareness-might-not-have-evolved-to-benefit-the-self-after-all2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why did the experience of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/consciousness\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">consciousness<\/a> evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/nc\/article\/2022\/1\/niac001\/6523097?login=false\">disagreement<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/gb\/blog\/theory-of-knowledge\/202310\/a-fight-breaks-out-in-the-science-of-consciousness\">controversy<\/a> \u2013 with several rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41583-022-00587-4\">theories<\/a> in contention.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33923218\/\">scoping review<\/a> of over 1,000 articles identified over 20 different theoretical accounts. Philosophers like David Chalmers argue that no single scientific theory can truly explain <a href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/CHATCM\">consciousness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We define consciousness as embodied subjective awareness, including self awareness. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interaliamag.org\/articles\/a-social-evolutionary-purpose-for-consciousness\/\">recent article<\/a> published in <em>Interalia<\/em> (which is not peer reviewed), we argue that one reason for this predicament is the powerful role played by intuition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement and controversy \u2013 with several rival theories in contention. A recent scoping review of over 1,000 articles identified over 20 different theoretical accounts. Philosophers like David Chalmers argue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}