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from a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century $from a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century; «conscious thoughts are those that can be communicated to others. we define consciousness, therefore as "that fraction of cognition that is packaged for exchange"....our individual consciousness likely evolved in parallel with collective consciousness, and would become fully realized only later in our evolution. understanding what is in the mind of another, known as theory of mind, is staggeringly useful. we see the rudiments of this capacity in many other species, and we see it extensively elaborated in a highly cooperative few, such as elephants, dolphins, crows, and many nonhuman primates. we humans are by far the most aware of one another's thoughts of any species that has ever existed, because we alone can, if we choose so, hand over the cognitive goods explicitly and with spectacular precision. we can accurately pass a complex abstraction from one mind to another by simply vibrating the air between us. it is everyday magic that usually passes without our notice.»$