"Only the "mental level" of biological operations permits the TIMELY integration of large sets of information necessary for problem-solving processes." Looking for Spinoza, p. 177 (emphasis mine).
Our bodies/brains are so complex they don't have TIME to "let instincts take care of things." The body/brain needs process info faster. Maybe the parallel processing offered by different brain areas was not even enough. Feelings and consciousness were needed to speed things up. Consciousness allows the brain to process huge amounts of info from memory and also from instinctual areas. Maybe consciousness is where higher mental processes duke it out with lower ones.
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