> I still don't understand why we are conscious and aware if there is no free will and we just react to stimuli. In computing systems it's fairly common to hav

> I still don't understand why we are conscious and aware if there is no free will and we just react to stimuli. In computing systems it's fairly common to have a monitoring and control layer on top of the core functionality. Is it beyond the bounds of possibility that evolution could have come up with something similar and that control view is what we call "consciousness"?