If one begins with the phenomenology of consciousness one must give an account of the origin of material objects as they arise in conscious experience.
The reason I ask is, I wonder how much you have analyzed the origins and the contents of your own beliefs - where did they come from, what motivates them, what their impact is on your life.
And in November, a century and a half after On the Origin of Species was published, we commemorate the beginnings of the theory by which we all know him.