TED Conversations  Farrukh Yakubov  Student, Purdue University
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2011: This question is a great one and still bothers me today.
My latest take is that humans are one collective consciousness
with the planet. Consciousness must be a new quantum state
caused from the complexity of our evolved mind.      Smaller
insect like creates are so simple that they act much like
robots. The environment triggers a response and they respond.
Hence their intelligence can easily be fooled and manipulated by
greatly evolved beings such as ourselves.      If our mind can
process 10,000 bits of information automatically at the same
time. (Our programmed or unconscious mind) then our conscious
mind, which can process about 40 bits (See The Social Animal TED
Talk) must be a relatively newly evolved phenomenon in the
history of our evolution..