Why Consciousness Science Needs Darwin

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Why Consciousness Science Needs Darwin

Walter Veit

Dec 30, 2025

This is the podcast version of my essay:

Why Consciousness Science Needs Darwin

Walter Veit

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Dec 28

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special case within the animal kingdom. The need for a Darwinian bottom-up approach that reconstructs these simple origins and then successively builds more comple…

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