I just came across the following article:
“KASTRUP: NO, CONSCIOUSNESS CANNOT BE JUST A BYPRODUCT”
Scientists and philosophers are beginning to realize that consciousness CANNOT arise from inert matter.
But they have no idea how consciousness arises.
Consciousness can arise only if a “seat of the mind” (hadaya vatthu) is created by Nature, via kammic energy.
– We create our own future lives (that are conscious) with our own actions.
The series of posts on “Origin of Life” analyze that in detail and came to that conclusion in the post, “Origin of Life – One Creates One’s Own Future Lives.”