system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What conditions caused what we know as human consciousness to begin?

Would it have begun out of the blue in an adult person or would it have begun as early as when a child develops consciousness today as a result of a new evolutionary development in the human brain? What was the evolutionary purpose for consciousness as an advantage to human survival that was so needed as opposed to the limited consciousness that other animals possess? Please elaborate as much as you can.
gpt
This is a million dollars question. Nobody know why or how consciousness emerged in the first place. We can barely define what is is to start with. All we know is that the brain evolved and then at some point consciousness happened. Or vice versa.