?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+evolution+of+consciousness&rft.creator=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=How+might+consciousness+have+evolved%3F+Unfortunately+for+the+prospects+of+providing+a+convincing+answer+to+this+question%2C+there+is+no+agreed+account+of+what+consciousness+is.+So+any+attempt+at+an+answer+will+have+to+fragment+along+a+number+of+different+lines+of+enquiry.+More+fortunately%2C+perhaps%2C+there+is+general+agreement+that+a+number+of+distinct+notions+of+consciousness+need+to+be+distinguished+from+one+another%3B+and+there+is+also+broad+agreement+as+to+which+of+these+is+particularly+problematic+-+namely+phenomenal+consciousness%2C+or+the+kind+of+conscious+mental+state+which+it+is+like+something+to+have%2C+which+has+a+distinctive+subjective+feel+or+phenomenology+(henceforward+referred+to+as+p-consciousness).+I+shall+survey+the+prospects+for+an+evolutionary+explanation+of+p-consciousness%2C+on+a+variety+of+competing+accounts+of+its+nature.+My+goal+is+to+use+evolutionary+considerations+to+adjudicate+between+some+of+those+accounts.&rft.publisher=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.contributor=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.contributor=Chamberlain%2C+Andrew&rft.date=2000&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1205%2F1%2FConcevol.htm&rft.identifier=++Carruthers%2C+Peter++(2000)+The+evolution+of+consciousness.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1205%2F<script src='//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>