CBT - Is There a Consciousness?

I mean, surely from the evolutionary point of view, consciousness was like a much, much later arriving thing on the human scene. So I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but it depends what you mean by consciousness. When I was studying cognitive neuroscience, the idea was that consciousness was this emergent property that came from complexity. And so I mean, that's a type of consciousness and that is sort of self-reflective consciousness. But I think what I'm talking about is a different type of consciousness, not conscious awareness, but just the, oh, see, this is where my knowledge fails me.

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