The Evolution of Consciousness

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I want to raise a question which I didn't find in the book which I which I miss about consciousness Consciousness is Really what gives us? Suffering we could have been An animal all the other animals they have they have primal drives. They don't right They're really bad at it. We're not good at it But we're better than they are in some dimension. It seems to me the consciousness itself is a big source of our of our challenge And I don't think we have a very good evolutionary understanding of consciousness.

Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychotherapeutic insights of Buddhism and the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. Wright argues our evolutionary past has endowed us with a mind that can be ill-suited to the stress of the present. He argues that meditation and the non-religious aspects of Buddhism can reduce suffering and are consistent with recent psychological research.