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If you could choose to come back as something else, why would you choose something other than a human being.
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Well I would choose to be an eagle, lol.
Consciousness... there are many philosophical concepts about it. I'll tell about a strictly functional explanation of consciousness, maybe you'll like it.
When a living organism achieves a certain degree of complexity through evolution it must find a way to function better. At a point where an organism has more than one choice of what to do now it must somehow decide what to do. If it doesn't make a decision it will end up doing everything at once and block itself.
Imagine you have these simple choices: eat now, defecate, copulate. How does the organism decide what to do? There must be somekind of
decision center that is responsible for the whole organism. The organism depends on that decision center to survive and to be able to perform complex tasks (like eat now, then copulate).
So this is where consciousness was introduced by evolution. It is a way for the organism to be able to perform decisions.
Pay attention to what you are really doing in your consciousness. At every moment of your life you are simply making decisions. That's all. You are assessing every thought, figuring out what to do next, what to do, what to do? Even "higher" spiritual thoughts are just decisions made, beliefs are formed to directly affect what you will do, how will you behave...
Somehow the complexity of the human organism got to the point where it started to make decisions about what to do with consciousness, what is it? Is it somekind of higher entity than this body? Does it maintain after death? And this is where the human misery began, but that is a completely different story...
