Consciousness

Consciousness is a unique quality of humans^{[Citation Needed]} - it is the quality of being self-aware, and rising above one's baser animal instincts. Grappling with the question of consciousness - why is humanity conscious, and no other species? - is an important question in philosophy and religion.^{[Citation Needed]} Creationists believe that, on account of the creation story, consciousness is God's gift to man, since we are made in His image.^{[Citation Needed]}