Human Consciousness

When talking about evolution, it is best to distinguish between natural history and natural science, the later being concerned with the genesis of Natural systems. Their genesis is the result of a functional sequence of processes of energy transformation (PETs) which begin with the Hot Bang and end with the emergence of a natural system in a local context characterized by a reduced energy density or ambient temperature. Because the science of matter is functional, there are two main stages in the scientific approach to evolution: first, the identification of the elementary, i.e. non reducible, processes of energy transformation {ePETs for short), second, their complexification in local contexts (ePETs). The language used to represent them is Quantum Mechanics (QM), generally held to map all known PETs involved in the genesis of Natural Systems (NS). The belief that the genesis of NS is quantal in nature is based on the fact that all of these systems are material and therefore products of cosmic evolution. The energy path of Cosmic Evolution is fairly well understood, although the details of the structural elaboration of the various types of natural systems, which is affected by local conditions, become more difficult to ascertain experimentally as we proceed to systems of greater complexity, as is the case with biological organisms. In the study of consciousness, and especially in that of human mentation, experimental psychologists often betray a temptation to jump directly from the micro-level of the substrate to the macro-level of emergence, without bothering to ascertain the dynamical nature of the intermediary stages. Ignorance of the fact that the evolutionary process, which is quanta), is syncopated from the Hot Bang on, results in the failure to ascertain the dynamical characteristics of the energy context wherein the last step before the emergence of cognition takes place, thereby getting an erroneous map of the evolutionary path leading to human consciousness.