Evolution of consciousness--I tell a story

About mind we're hopelessly ignorant. Does matter have a mind? Where is mind? Did mind have to evolve? We haven’t a clue. To deal with problems like this I make up a story that accounts for whatever-it-is, and I extract clues from it. Here in brief is my story about mind: mind originated as living creatures evolved, in four stages. Stage one is evolution from scratch up to the creation of the genetic code, stage two is the evolution of single-celled creatures, stage three is the evolution of multi-celled creatures, stage four is the evolution of us humans. More...