I don't really doubt the connection, I doubt the reduction. There is no reason to isolate the phylogenetic march as the primary efficient cause of its own chang

I don't really doubt the connection, I doubt the reduction. There is no reason to isolate the phylogenetic march as the primary efficient cause of its own change through time in opposition to the claim that it is a register of that change. There are other possible explanations for innate aptic structures than a genetic determinism which ultimately requires us to accept a theory of consciousness as simply a passive witness to unceasing, out-of-control volitional states.