[MD] What is SOM?

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
No, I mean, "Oops."

[Arlo]
Why "oops" and not "aha!"? But no matter, what do you offer other than "poof"?
Is it the "unintended consequences" you deny? Do you think that a "plan"
existed before the world was created to bring "human consciousness" into
existence? Where did that "plan" reside? Is this evidence that you support
Ham's Great Poof Theory, where "On High" went "Abracadabra!" and there appeared
consciousness in primates? (If so, then let me know as my next post will then
be about the evolution of consciousness, another topic Ham has been wholly
unable to answer).

[Platt]
Why do you ask these questions?

[Arlo]
Curiosity. What are your answers? 

[Arlo had asked]
First, I assume you'd agree that at some point in the far, far distant past,
some pre-pre-primate of man lacked the sophistication in
consciousness/awareness that "man" possesses. If you disagree here, let me know.

If we accept the above premise, then something had to change, some event or
something that occurred, some change in something, that can account for the
appearance of something where it did not exist before. No?

I've been vocal about my view on social participation (an unintended
consequence of neurological evolution) being this "change". Physiologists may
point to simply the neurobiological changes in themselves that account for the
appearance of human consciousness. Both of these views you characterize (slyly)
as "oops". I've argued that these are not "oops" but "aha's!", moments where
Quality latched onto the unexpected formations that appeared due to genetic
changes.

So I ask you, Platt, "what changed?" You disavow both physiological and
sociological theories. I know that. So what do you offer instead? The only
thing I could glean from Ham's responses is a sort of Divine Intervention, a
great "Abracadabra!" or "Poof!" where "on high" (Ham's words) suddenly poofed
consciousness into existence. 

What do you offer instead of these? Although you run from the word, the only
thing you have ever offered in the past is "Great Poof" a la Ham of some
"Qualigod". Now tell me, if not "oops" or "aha!" or "poof", then what?