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Are they? Minds are optimized by evolution. That's not the same as for evolution.
That's too abstract, let's go down a level, I just meant that if catching rabbits is good for your genes, you might evolve eyes that see rabbits, not wavefunctions transformed to Fourier space or something. Edited the bit you were responding to, I guess it was unclear.
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But using your example, eyes don't "contain" evolution. They provide a capability which is advantageous under natural selection, but they do not themselves perform evolution by natural selection. It's not clear to me that we should expect any connection with consciousness and evolution, other than the historical description of how natural consciousness came to be.