/sci/ - Science & Math

What do you think was the very primordial reason for consciousness to appear, /sci/?

I like the sound of the "speech evolved first" theory, or:

>Consciousness appeared when primates evolved primitive speech from their random noises, which led to many of them uncontrollably "expressing" their taboo desires like fucking the alpha's females, which then led to most of them either getting slaughtered or severely punished.
In such a case, a regulatory mechanism that simulates your peer's behavior and allows you to "put yourself in his shoes" and plan the effect of your actions in advance is hugely beneficial, as the anxiety one such mechanism would generate would actually eliminate the closest existential threat to your genes - getting excommunicated by the alpha and demoted into a non-reproducing omega because you uncontrollably spouted out shit you shouldn't. Therefor, the thing that is able to simulate social behavior and consequences of your own social behavior only got promoted more and more as our societies became exponentially complex, which trend can be observed up until today, where good social skills and status is the ultimate reproductive value above anything else.

What do you guys think? Is it bullshit, and if so, why and what would be a more logical explanation?