I don&#x27;t think they will.<p>Firstly our perceived autonomy and freedom of choice is an illusion. Humans are more similar than different, and if we were genuinely individualistic we wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as primed to create collaborative social structures such as countries and corporations - which can be so anti-individualistic they regularly create significant individual harm or death.<p>Secondly, there seems to be a trend in evolution towards greater collaborative complexity at the expense of individual organisms.<p>So I think we&#x27;re at the pre-Cambrian soup phase of consciousness, with a few random and not very coherent evolutionary structures emerging from a mess of interactions and acting in rather blind and unsentient ways.<p>A conscious network would be a reasonable extrapolation, and if it was stable it would have the potential to be self-aware at a higher level.