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This chapter discusses the view that human consciousness may share aspects of "animal awareness"with other species, but has its unique form because humans possess language. Four ingredients of a theory on the evolution of human consciousness are offered: the view that a précis of intended activity is necessarily formed in the brain of a human that communicates in a human way; the notion that this defines a "communication plexus"essential to a particularly human form of consciousness; the mirror system hypothesis for the evolution of the human language-ready brain, and a view of the co-evolution of subtleties of emotion atop more basic systems for motivation such as thirst, hunger, fear and mating. |
