"Has anyone noticed that for consciousness to exist that means free will exists and determinism is false and evolution is false. I know that's a lot to drop at once lol<br><br>I believe evolution isn’t the source of life because of the problem of consciousness. How did matter go from not aware to aware? Matter is just energy with properties. That’s all atoms are"," energy. Depending on the element and electrons on it it acquires a different property. And you can keep building on it by making compounds and so forth. It’s all just energy.<br><br>Robot Analogy:<br>If we make a basic robot that has been programmed to walk on a path that turns", it should be able to take in information, record where the path is and remain on it. It did not need awareness to take action. We wouldn’t say this basic robot has awareness. It has no “point of view” as you and I do. The awareness you and I have is what you are experiencing right now. When you take in information you are aware. However, when a robot takes in information it is not aware. We (humans are robots programmed to do things) have a very similar process of taking in information. You see fire and your brain takes in that information and knows to keep a safe distance. You become aware of the danger. When a robot that has been programmed to stay away from fire observes fire it will do as it's programmed and stay away, yet it is not aware like you and I are. It has no free will and didn't choose to get back and away from the fire like you chose to do. It was programmed to react a certain way. All physical constructs are just energy, that's what atoms are. And the way the energy reacted with other forms of energy made the robot react in the way it was programmed to. It isn’t aware of its actions. It’s programmed to do so. Let’s say we gave it another programming to react positively to certain music. Let’s say we gave it another programming to say hi to people it’s seen before. Let’s give it another programming to react positively to you rubbing it’s head. Those are 4 programming in total. Is this robot aware like you and I are? Your answer is obviously no. Okay, let’s keep giving it more programming. Let’s say we give it 10^1000000 more programmings. So much so that it has a response for every scenario it can possibly fall in. Let’s say we make this robot look exactly like a human. Now let’s throw it into society. Will you be able to tell it is a robot and not a human? Absolutely not. At this point, would you say it’s aware? No. As we determined earlier, the number of programmings a robot has does nothing to it’s level of awareness. And if it DOES, then you tell me what number does it go from not aware to aware. 1,000,000,000 programmings? Is 1 billion not aware but 1 billion and 1 aware? Why? How? It’s so arbitrary. The only possibly answer to this is that consciousness and awareness is on a spectrum (which I agree somewhat). A spectrum like you’re not very aware and then slowly become more aware. Higher states of consciousness. To circle back to the original point," we created a robot that has pathways that make it behave a certain way. Yet we can all agree that it is not aware. This is amazing information. What does this tell us?? It tells us that our consciousness doesn't come from out neurons and energy being fired around in our brain.<br><br>For no free will to exist there can’t be consciousness. For free will to exist there MUST be consciousness by necessity.<br><br>In conclusion", I believe evolution in the small scale. It can change life, adaptation and whatnot. I don’t believe it’s the source of life due to the problem of consciousness. If we can create a functioning robot with many many programmings (which essentially all a programming is is energy reacting with other energy making it react a certain way)," this is a chain reaction of energy and a chain reaction is NOT awareness as discussed above. If we know that everything in the universe is a chain reaction of energy and we determined earlier that a chain reaction of energy isn’t awareness then by all means we should all be unaware right now. But we aren’t. Consciousness and awareness doesn’t happen naturally in this chain of energy. It’s almost like consciousness was plopped right in. It doesn’t emerge naturally in this chain reaction.<br><br>SUMMARY (to make all of this easier to swallow)<br>A robot has programmings just as we have been programmed by "evolution" to react certain ways. But we determined that a robot programmed to carry out tasks doesn't have awareness like you and I. This means it isn't neurons", and brain activity that makes us react certain ways, that gives us awareness. The two likely cases that explain why we have consciousness at all are that consciousness is part of all forms of matter and energy. As in it's already one with it. And the other scenario is that consciousness was bestowed in us by something greater.