Demis believes consciousness evolved as an advantage to understanding the internal state of others, which humans then applied inward to model their own minds—a form of 'recursive self-modeling'.

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Hannah Fry

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consciousness was this consequence of evolution um that you know at some point in our evolutionary past there was like an advantage to understanding the internal state of another and then we sort of turned it in on ourselves.

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The future of intelligence | Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)Google DeepMind
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:32:10 AM

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