(IV) A specific SE is selected during matching process and conscious experience constructs the perception or SE of external objects. The interaction between zombies is relational but it would not lead to an individual consciousness in each zombie.1 The origin of intersubjective consciousness is the interaction between individual consciousnesses, i.e., interaction between ‗I‘, ‗you‘, and ‗she/he/it‘, i.e., interactions between minds/brains and their environments. (III) The origin of individual consciousness could be a ‗universal background of awareness‘ that is equivalent to virtual reservoir (where potential SEs are stored in superposed form, and a specific SE is selected via matching process) in the PE-SE framework. Here, in terms of dual-aspect dual-mode PE-SE (proto-experience/subjective experience) framework (Vimal, 2008b, 2010d), we argue as follows: (I) Non-experiential consciousness is a part of functional aspect of consciousness and consciousness is more fundamental than experience because experiences and functions are two aspects of consciousness.I (II) Therefore, one could argue for the continuum of consciousness, experience, and function. Previously in (Vimal, 2010a), we argued that: (i) it is necessary to link experience and function aspect of consciousness with the related structure or neural correlate(s) of consciousness (NCC) and (ii) non-conscious experiences are equivalent to relevant proto-experiences at various levels because both are precursors of conscious subjective experiences aspect of consciousness. This quali-ty is our symbolically enabled (culturally constructed) self-consciousness, the fortress of cultural identity that empowers but also imprisons awareness. Thus, although we, the human species, are but one species among innumerable others, we differ in kind, not degree. I conclude that prehumans un-derwent an existential crisis, i.e., the realisation of certain mortality, that could be borne only by the discovery-creation of the larger realm of symbolic consciousness once expe-rienced as the sacred (but today we know it as the world – as opposed to our immediate natural environment and that of other animals). In the complex of causes that led to human being, I look to scholarship in linguistics, mythology, anthropology, paleon-tology, and to creation myths themselves for an answer.
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By accepting that the formal structure of human language is the key to understanding the uniquity of human culture and consciousness and by further accepting the late ap-pearance of such language amongst the Cro-Magnon, I am free to focus on the causes that led to such an unprecedented threshold crossing.