Difference Between the Evolutionary Changes and the Development of Knowledge For Consciousness

Modern human consciousness has its roots and origins dating back two hundred thousand years to Africa. As species, Homo sapiens are a relatively new in their contemporary, evolved form, as for example the Dolphins we co-exist with are a species ten million years of age, but the development of humans is not only relative to the physical development of the consciousness, but also to the development of knowledge, reasoning skills and extending awareness of the phenomena in the environment.

In the timeframe of evolution, changes so vivid and rapid distinctive to the historic differences between contemporary humans and our ancestors in behavior and sense of reality cannot be located to be genetic as a cause for such range and variety inside of a species. Although we do not have firsthand experience of the inner lives of dolphins, the behavior of these playful creatures in non-captivity can still be expected to have remained relatively the same throughout the timeframe humans have co-existed with them.

In relativity with the data of contemporary genetics, we can still assume that the origins of consciousness are the same between humans and dolphins, but which have separated from each others to have a different set of neurological devices in the brains, some distinctive to the motor tasks of the differently shaped body, some, such as coalition detection, distinctive to our species in order to enable us to differentiate members from different tribes and bands. Thus, the physical evolution of consciousness exists within the boundaries of the genes that cause the emergence of the neurological devices that act in concert to cause the emergence of a conscious living being, whether an ape, a dolphin or a human.

Now, although it is for humans relatively the same brains that are used to gain skills, and to obtain knowledge, learning to make logical connections between representations, the capacity and what it can make a person to become are far beyond the scales and proportions of even the most imaginatively thinking individuals. When large proportions of the sense of reality are founded upon knowledge, what knowledge individuals become subjected with determines the building blocks of that sense of reality, and as knowledge is developed, the foundations of the sense of reality for the consciousness develops. Take for example the development of ethics. Ethics as they are, are in their very essence knowledge that alters human behavior without genetic brain surgery, but results still to differentiate behavior as actions are conducted in relativity with ethical representations. This kind of value-relative behavior can be used to sequence religious rituals, what is etiquette related behavior, how to dress or what to eat. To alter the natural behavior of dolphins is possible through conditioning, but not in the scales and proportions knowledge relative human behavior can be adjusted with as the knowledge itself is developed.

Henry M. Piironen is the author of "The Power of Transiency (How Thoughts Can Harness the Power of Life, the Universe and Everything)." To purchase this definitive book, visit Amazon Kindle Store now! Already read it? To purchase his other books, click here.