All phenomena of mind that can be explained by way of evolutionary biology can also be explained by way of metaphysics. This probably says no more than that neither of these discourses explains anything at all, that they are merely versatile systems for continuing to make a sort of sense, ne that is roughly consistent with what has gone before. For example, the imperative for survival is the drive of life to realise itself and is nothing but the search for the Good- and where the Good seems at odds with simple survival we finds its need to distinguish itself. People's need to validate their identities is both a social drive and a back-handed acknowledgement that identity is entirely a fiction, and hence a step on the way to the infinitely deferred implosion of the mental world, the world of appearance, which exists only to pretend that there is something happening and someone for it to happen to. There is no contradiction between these two kinds of explanation. Evolution does not take place in an infinite world of pure possibility, but in one that is highly shaped by prior occupation and by the latent properties of whatever it is that is evolving. In other words it proceeds in a highly specialised space. The fact that we don't seem to see this, that evolution is implicitly treated as if it were the Hegelian Notion, freely determining itself in a sequence of significant forms, in only an artefact of where we happen to be viewing it from. This is especially relevant for consciousness. As an evolutionary emergent it makes its entrance through a certain door and onto a certain stage. It opens its eyes in wonder, it breathes the air of another planet, and what it sees, and what it breathes, is not reality but a reflection of how it got here and to what it owes its arrival.