Humanity is stuck in a "because" loop. Our experience of most events is that they are effects of particular causes. Whenever whatever happens, we seek the cause and in most cases we logically attribute one or more causes to a high degree of satisfaction, wherein such becomes common knowledge. Because we are so grounded in it, when we happen upon an effect for which there is no logical cause, we invent one. The concept of supernatural beings (religion, if you will) was invented to satisfy many mysterious effects, and such became common knowledge within the various cultures. The advance of science, while often weak in explaining why given us considerable insight into how and what as causes. "Because" demands an answer to why. There are many theories of the what of consciousness. If we should develop evidence to prove one of them as true, we are still a long way from understanding why we even have consciousness. And who or what intended it to be so.
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