Tyrone was skeptical, "How did that happen so suddenly?"
Bronty answered "You're not very observant, its been slowly emerging for a very long time."
"For a long time? I wonder why it took so long to emerge?"
"Well, apparently, if it takes a very long time to emerge, then its scientific, but if it emerges very quickly, then its creationism. Although, I'm not sure what its called if it just takes a medium length of time to emerge. Or, what they call it when it takes, a fairly long time to emerge, (but not very long); and also, I'm not sure what its called when it takes a fairly short time to emerge, albeit, not all-of-a-sudden-like. So if you want to be scientific, you must move very very very very slowly. The slower things move, the more scientific they are. You're not very well educated, are you Tyrone?"

Tyrone stared in wonder "Do you think its fit for survival?" Bronty licked his bowl clean of the last few drops of primordial soup, and then stared longingly at Tyrone's bowl. "It doesn't look like you can eat it, and being an epi-phenomenon, it has no causal effect, so it couldn't be of any use." Tyrone had lost interest in his primordial soup, and was poking around at the phenomenon. "Its probably just another random mutation, and in fact I doubt it even exists. What should we call it?" Bronty paused for a second and then suggested "How about we call it consciousness?"

Tyrone raised his snout and sniffed at it: "con-shis-niss, hmm it seems like its of no use to us, seeing as though our brains are chemical reactions, and do not require anything more to be fulfilled." Tyrone went back to his primordial soup, and Bronty picked up the epi-phenomenon. "Yeah, you're right, besides, I hear there is a mass extinction on the way, and we're to be replaced by mice." Tyrone gave Bronty a suspicious look and interjected "Bronty, you really should not listen to those conspiracy theorists, we all know that global warming is just another media frenzy." Bronty acquiesced."Humph, you're probably right" he said, and tossed the epi-phenomenon aside in the direction of two mice.

One of the mice was a pinkish color, and a trifle stupid looking; and the other had a protruding forehead. It just so happened that the epi-phenomenon landed between the eyes of the one with the protruding forehead; suddenly he got a maniacal look across his face. "Pinky...", he said. "Yeah?" said the stupid looking one. His compatriot squinted with one eye raised and uttered "I have a plan to take over the world." The stupid looking mouse looked bewildered. "The whole flippin' world? How long is it going to take?" With bulging veins on either side of his head, he answered: "Yes, the whole world; give or take a Bush or two; it could take several million years..."