{"id":656,"date":"2023-02-04T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-surprising-reason-consciousness-evolved-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-04T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:44:08","slug":"the-surprising-reason-consciousness-evolved-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-surprising-reason-consciousness-evolved-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising reason consciousness evolved \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vt4ybqQ0nOk?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Every minute you spend awake, your mind passes from experience to experience. This ebb and flow of thoughts and feelings is often called a \u2018stream of consciousness\u2019 \u2013 and, throughout history, it was largely believed to only exist in humans. However, thanks to decades of consciousness research, we now know that consciousness is far more widespread in the animal kingdom than we ever imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Which begs the question, why did consciousness evolve in the first place \u2013 and when?<\/p>\n<p>A compelling new theory from Eva Jablonka at Tel Aviv University and Simona Ginsburg at the Open University of Israel may just have the answers. Their theory hinges around a process called \u2018unlimited associative learning\u2019 and the evolution of this ability may have been a decisive factor in why our earliest ancestors not only survived but thrived.<\/p>\n<p>Script &#038; narration: David Robson<br \/>\nAnimation: Archie Crofton<br \/>\nProducer: Florence Craig<br \/>\nSpecial thanks to Eva Jablonka &#038; Simona Ginsburg<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vt4ybqQ0nOk\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every minute you spend awake, your mind passes from experience to experience. This ebb and flow of thoughts and feelings is often called a \u2018stream of consciousness\u2019 \u2013 and, throughout history, it was largely believed to only exist in humans. However, thanks to decades of consciousness research, we now know that consciousness is far more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,82,15,17,16,81,80,79,78,18,19,84,77,85],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","tag-animal","tag-animals","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-behaviour","tag-brain","tag-concious","tag-conciousness","tag-factual","tag-features","tag-octupus","tag-science","tag-squid","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}