Consciousness

Given the fact that consciousness is a biological phenomenon, and given the "agreed propositions" of Darwinian evolution by natural selection, one may wonder why we haven't been able to produce any plausible evolutionary explanation for human cognition. Most books and articles that have been written about evolution of human cognition are largely storytelling, as evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin suggests. Even Daniel Dennett, an American philosopher and a staunch advocate of Darwinian theory, admits that “Unlike most explanations in science, evolutionary explanations are essentially narratives,....” ... Historically, we are permanently in this disadvantageous position of not being able to rewind all the processes and all the modifications that had been made during the aeon of evolutionary time to see what happened. And also, in the beginning of life, "nobody was around to see what happened," as Richard Dawkins, British biologist points out.