The speaker speculates that consciousness and multicellular life may share a process, in which case consciousness may be difficult to discover independently and may be facilitated by prenatal and broader biological environments.

“And so consciousness and life, multicellular life at least, could be the same. And if that is the case, maybe it took a very, very long time to discover and you don't discover it independently in your consciousness, but you get infected by your mother in utero or you basically vibe with your biological environment, with all the biological organisms around you, and they basically nudge your mind to discover consciousness, so it's much, much easier.”