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“I think he is. I mean, the only reason he needs Harken’s body is to trick us. This poses one problem. How do we kill the Beast?” I ask the one question that has been bothering me ever since I found out that Harken is not Harken.

I’ll be a balmy summer’s morning and you’ll ride at a comfortable pace down rowdy sidewalk of flinders’ lane. Your thoughts will skim briefly over the funny conversation from the previous night, before settling with quiet satisfaction over the forlorn gurgles of your empty stomach. Pleasant chimes will become audible as your iPhone vibrates, and when your heart sinks deep into the pit of your stomach, somewhere, you’ll know. Call it what you like, we think its fear, but it’s chemical. It’s the imbalances in the brain, fluctuations in the level of cortisol and serotonin that stimulate your senses and rev up the volume of those voices inside your head; those uncalled for whispers that tell you you can’t; no Jeanie, you shouldn’t, it’s not worth it in its cautious, menacing little voice.

We all are very familiar with the very perplexing nature of this entity “consciousness”. We can tell when we are awake, when we are thinking, when we are pondering over the world, but to explain this nature of consciousness can be somewhat grueling. However as our understanding and comprehension of the brain is escalating, we are able to tackle this subject to an extent.

The author points out how the conscious can get

After the BBC experiment many websites and doctors started examining the breakthrough study. The aforementioned website also states that “The results were startling. Individuals paced neurotically in their cells, and some reported visions of oysters, zebras and tiny cars. Psychological tests administered before and after the ordeal demonstrated significant declines in subjects’ intellectual faculties on the one hand, and increases in suggestibility on the other. (University, 2011)”

For about an hour, it becomes almost impossible for an individual to speak or to mention any events that would correlate with the distressing situation. In most cases, the affected people do not like associating with situations that remind them of the stressing moment. For instance, when an individual experiences a situation in which a cobra almost attacked him or her, the same person would close their eyes when they see a real or an image of the snake somewhere. Some victims respond in awe because they cannot utter any word to explain the level of rear they have towards the element that generates distress. The victims record such encounters in the long term memory, and whenever an imagination occurs in reference to the situation, the adrenal glands release the catecholamine in order to deal with the

When Caley discovers the depth of Erin’s deception, his rage explodes like wildfire and devoted guardian turns to terrifying bounty hunter. To survive, Erin must outrun the past and evade the Eyes of the

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

Imagine yourself in a crowded physics classroom, amongst 30 other students. Someone begins developing an equation on the board. Your eyes dart to the board, immediately scanning the space in desperate pursuit of anything comprehensible. Your vision becomes blurred and your ears amplify each individual sound. Very abruptly, you become aware of the room’s alarming confinement. You feel your focus diminishing rapidly but you fumble with your pencil, attempting to decode something. Anything. Unidentifiable voices are beginning to ring in your ears and a heavy weight is forming in the pit of your stomach. Your heart is slamming into your chest with such agonising force and intensity that every bone in your body buckles.

When I finally do come to my senses, I lie still, waiting for the next onslaught of imagery. But eventually I accept that the poison must have finally worked its way out of my system, leaving

Cruse et al. (2011) conducted an EEG study requiring the subjects to imagine movements of their right-hand and toes to test whether patients in VS could follow command, and hence, they had conscious awareness. The instructors told the participants to squeeze their right-hand or to move their toes as soon as they heard a beep sound, then relax. During the task, the participants’ EEG responses were measured by using either a 129-channel or a 257-channel electrode caps depending on where the experiment took place. The EEG responses of healthy controls with matching channel electrode cap were compared with the VS patients. The results showed that the patients were able to consistently generate the accurate EEG responses when they were asked to imagine the movements which were very close to the control group when doing the same task (i.e. mean 70% and 68% respectively). Both the patients and the controls had no significant EEG responses in the baseline period. It was concluded that EEG could detect conscious awareness in patients in VS, as the

I pulled into the gravel driveway and Harolt hopped out of the passenger side of the old black 1969 Dodge Coronet. She popped open the back of the car. Grabbing the bags full of fattening food, she dragged them into the hidden house. I closed the back and followed her through the rusty door. “Where do you keep syrup?” hollered Harolt.

People were intrigued with the notion that synesthesia seemed to have a direct link to the unconscious. With time, however, attention turned to "objective" behavior that could be quantified or measured by machines. Humans became "subjects," the individual was abandoned, and the mind temporarily became a black box.

While periods of human thought are invariably brief, lasting only seconds at most, consciousness maintains a continuous flow, uninterrupted by any shift in thought. This is evident in the persistence of a unary self when conceptualized at a single moment in time and over a period of time. The agent responsible for synchronicity is the claustrum, located on the underside of the neocortex. Although the exact function of the claustrum remains to be verified, connectivity studies have shown that it plays a vital role in communication between the two hemispheres of the brain, specifically between cortical regions controlling attention. It is believed that the claustrum acts as a timescale integrator, synchronizing the two hemispheres, creating a seamless unity of consciousness between hemispherical processes. Anesthetics such as Propofol affirm the functionality of the claustrum through their mechanism of action. A state of unconsciousness is induced when the brain’s ability to integrate information is blocked. Anesthetics inhibit the synchrony of the claustrum through potentiation of gamma-amino-butyric acid alpha (GABA-A).

For example, if John felt pain from tripping over John would be disposed to exhibit pain behaviour, such as wincing and screaming, as a way of showing his felt pain. Mary’s belief that a snake was near her foot might make her gasp in fear, tremble, become motionless, and the like. In both cases, mental properties are understood “in terms of observable physical phenomena”