I recently read an article regarding human consciousness. The article proposed that Human consciousness could be a side effect of entropy. I found this to be another utterly ridiculous example of our need to contrive an overly complex answer to obfuscate a shortcoming in humbleness.

There’s an air of arrogance to believe that only humans experience consciousness. Every living creature may have consciousness in terms of being self-aware of itself and its surroundings. Simply lacking the scientific tools to accurately or consistently measure or capture information proving other living creatures have consciousness does not negate the possibility that it exists. We place ourselves on a pedestal because we have language and consider other creatures lesser beings because they do not have language; our arrogance is our folly. Lacking the ability to understand another language or even identify it as a language is a failure of the observer, not the observed.

We tend to think that our consciousness is unique to humans because we gave it a name, but why would consciousness be unique to humans, considering we evolved on a planet with creatures composed of better than 90% DNA arranged in a different order?

We look to the stars for other forms of life with the expectation that there must be others out there on planets similar to ours, and yet we struggle to apply those same concepts to the very lifeform we share on our planet.

As a species, we are so unprepared to play with others, as we cannot manage to value and respect all the life around us. We Desperately need an upgraded frontal lobe because most of us lack self-control and good judgment. We are almost certainly controlled by our fear, which our frontal lobe should be able to reason and manage, yet it is overcome by our baser instincts.