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In article <1992Sep14.003130.26845@math.ucla.edu> barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>                                                    The interesting
>questions:
>
>(1) Why and how did consciousness evolve
>(2) what are the stages of development and possible types
>    of consciousness within an individual organism.
>(3) How can we create consciouss entities.

I agree.  And (1) is the place to start.  A while back I suggested that
consciousness evolved primarily as a mechanism to enhance and direct
learning.  I would be interested in further discussion of this.

>To investigate these really interesting questions, one only needs
>the practical---but impresise---idea that consciousness is a sense of self;

But keep in mind that this may be misleading.  That is, perhaps the
sense of self is just an incidental side effect.