Before revision: Antonio and Hanna Damasio, too, observe, "It is likely that homeostatic feelings were the inaugural phenomena of consciousness in evolution ..." and propose that "homeostatic feelings were were selected [by evolution] because the spontaneous information they provided regarding the current state of life regulation conferred extraordinary advantages to the respective organisms.
After revision: Antonio and Hanna Damasio, too, observe, "It is likely that homeostatic feelings the inaugural phenomena of consciousness in evolution ..." and propose that "homeostatic feelings were were selected [by evolution] because the spontaneous information they provided regarding the current state of life regulation conferred extraordinary advantages to the respective organisms.