[TigersEye]

There's no reason life has to jump through the DNA hoops and learn how to behave like a trained puppy when it's possible that it's just something that takes advantage of water.

Consciousness?

[muawiyah]

Odds are "consciousness" arises in some manner from a super computer array built along a strand or two of DNA ~ right from the beginning.

That "consciousness" might well be in charge of the "evolution" of its own container.