There are many reasons, but one that recently came to mind involves human consciousness. At some time in our history, humans recognized that they possessed something that was not directly, not visibly, attached to a body part. They felt sad when someone close to them died, they dreamed of the comfort of the summer sun when shivering in the cold, and they reasoned that a stone with a sharp edge shaped wooden arrows and cut animal skin. They were thinking and feeling, and it did not involve the movement of any part of their body. Survival demanded that they become keen observers of their environment. From the start, they reasoned that if something happened, something else usually caused it, and in many cases, they were able to discover that cause. Their own minds were a mystery. It was something both outside and yet somehow inside of them, with no obvious connection.
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