how come other animals haven’t come to the same stage as consciousness as humans? Some animals have lived longer than humans did.
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There is no proper correlation between lifespan and consciousness, though consciousness is not something we’ve really been able to properly define or quantify in a way that allows us to identify it with certainty.
Consciousness appears to be an emergent property of sorts that stems from complexity of the nervous system, built on top of thought, emotion, prediction, and other mental faculties. These arise from the body plan and biology of the organism, not how long it happens to live.
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