Consciousness Is A Wide Topic That Spans Many Different Schools Of Thought

A factual definition of consciousness; Consciousness is “2: the state of being characterized by sensation, emotion, volition, and thought: 3: the totality of conscious states of an individual.”(Pp. 1). One is able to physically feel, understand emotion, is a willing individual, and are

* to explain the connections of the elements of consciousness to the nervous system. (New World Encyclopaedia 2008)

conscious. If we, humans, are truly biological machines and we are at the same time conscious then I

The fascination with consciousness dates back to the time of Plato and Descartes. Since those times the term “consciousness” has spurned controversy in many scientific fields, including the fields of biology, psychology, and neuroscience. However, with the recent advancements in brain imaging technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), human consciousness has shifted from being a subjective, abstract idea into being a observable scientific phenomenon. As neuroimaging capabilities progress, the public interest in consciousness also grows.

Daniel Bor, a psychological researcher, and author, wrote an article titled “When Do We Become Truly Conscious” published on September 4, 2012 and in this article he discusses the idea of consciousness. Through use of deductive reasoning Bor refers to early opinions viewing consciousness as magic and discusses the science behind demystifying consciousness. Bor also discusses the ethical arguments behind learning for about consciousness. Bor also lists some of the emotional arguments centered on human awareness. Bor’s use of rhetorical strategies is designed to state his opinion in a simple and easily read way.

     Consciousness is a difficult term to grasp; so much so, that many scientists will not even attempt to define the term, much less search for it’s evidence. Most however, do agree that consciousness must include certain aspects; specifically cognition, self-awareness, memory, and abstract thought.

However, as the article, and time frame the article occurs in, progresses, the indirect observation of the conscious mind becomes more deliberate. It becomes the aim of the research rather than a secondary result. For instance, the work of Weiskrantz and Bisiach indicates an intentional and deliberate studying of consciousness, through scientific processes involving “blindsight,” (31-32) and “inattentive,” vision (33), respectively. The correct responses in the studies yielded by individuals who have been rendered incapable of consciously correctly answering the questions provides solid, scientific evidence of unconscious processes that enabled their behavior, and also indicates a shift in the article toward a more objective take on the scientific method. However, the work indicates not only an evolution and advancement of the scientific discoveries highlighted—that is, the discussion of consciousness—but also an evolution of the scientific process itself away from the antiquated practices of pseudoscience that the piece highlights near its start, and toward the scientific method as it is known

Intelligence and Consciousness are two very controversial topics discussed in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. They are both labels for inner-workings of the brain, so they cannot easily be identified. The existence itself of intelligence is not very controversial, because it refers to the brain’s capacity for memory, learning, and ability to reason and problem-solve. However, the measurement of intelligence is very oversimplified and unreliable. Consciousness is significantly more debatable because it is essentially impossible (at least by today’s standards) to develop an objective list of criteria to identify consciousness. Very little is known about it other than the fact that we feel as if we have a single consciousness. The two

Consciousness, on the other hand, is the first person self-awareness of one’s mental states. One knows and understands exactly what they are

Consciousness, from an existentialist standpoint, is defined as awareness of how no life has inherent meaning or importance, and how one’s life is defined by how they are viewed by others. Though many pursue a synthetic purpose in life, in the end, their life is only defined by others' perceptions of their efforts and character.

Consciousness is a physiological function, such as behavior. Our self-awareness and ability to communicate with one another through sending and receiving messages in a complex social structure, giving us a great capability to learn. These abilities have evolved.

Reading on the article “Will We Ever Understand Consciousness?” Scientists & Philosophers Debate was very intriguing. It imposes that consciousness is such an unbelievable magnesium and how unique the brain works due to the fact of how it give rise to fundamental action to the outside world and how separate it is from our bodies, minds, and souls. It states that the more we use our brains to think (known as consciousness), the more millions of neurons interact with each other to make sense of how put things together in the reality world; but the interesting part is that the mind itself is fundamentally incapable of comprehending itself, no matter how much scientist studies the brain. As I continue to read, it also go into details about self-awareness, and the brain activity of coma patients due to traumatic brain injury. The interesting fact is that how drugs or prescription medications can have such side effects to improve and disprove of one’s unconsciousness; like giving the prescription drug to treat Parkinson Disease also treat a person that has lost conscious, as well as knowing that we all experience unconsciousness every day, due to sleep. It also states that during sleep the neurons of the brain activity communication is much more localized and less complex during sleeping than during the times that we are awake because of

I am going to discuss how two of the aspects of human consciousness are relevant in my day-to-day life. Prior to taking this course, I had no idea that there were so many, scientifically-proven, differing levels of consciousness. One example of how this is relevant to my life is the lower-level consciousness; more specifically daydreaming. I remember quite frequently trying to thoroughly pay attention to the important lecture in my high school class, to then find myself drifting off into the semiautomatic flow of recent events or whether or not I will do the homework assignment once I get home. Other examples of lower-level consciousness are; me typing a phone number I memorized into my phone, Typing the passwords to the multitude of social

Assuming that we consider ourselves, humans, to be conscious, then what other organisms are conscious as well? We may consider the species mostly similar to ours as being conscious because we base our idea of consciousness on ourselves. To paraphrase another idea from the text, we cannot know what consciousness is like for other animals, such as a bat, because we are not bats and it would be impossible to accurately put ourselves in the perspective of being a bat. We may consider any animal or organism that has a hierarchical structure to their society or signs of emotions to have a consciousness because they would then have to be aware of their surroundings and how they interact with other members of their species. However, there is no understanding of what constitutes a culture

Consciousness allows a person to recognize their existence, and subsequently, to form their essence. The