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Phenomenal consciousness can not have evolved. It can only have been there from the beginning as an intrinsic, irreducible fact of nature. Last two lines of the article on consciousness.

Beginning of what? The universe? Eukaryotes? Once there is sufficient neuronal complexity? According to the author no to the last cuz that suggests it arises through evolution.

My guess is that the concepts are not mutually exclusive. The universe is not conscious. But if its constituents are properly organized in our case through evolution then consciousness occurs.