Gell-Mann in this talk suggests that the human mind, like life itself, could be emergent - a product of laws and accidents. In the case of the human mind it could be an emergent property of the complexity of neo-cortex. The cerebellum - which is not involved in conscious awareness - has the same neuron density, but is not as interconnected as cortex: it is not as complex. I think the idea that consciousness is an emergent 'global' property is a more plausible than the ideathat it is a module, an exaption, an assembly and so on.
Gell-Mann's TED talk: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/194
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