The Essential Properties Of Consciousness

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 refers to an individual’s self-awareness, both internally and external stimulus which include your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment. Your consciousness can constantly change from one conscious to another. The constant change in consciousness can also be referred to as “stream of conscious”. Awareness- its mechanism and function has

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

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

Consciousness is a broad topic that spans many different schools of thought. Its role in

Affording Introspection: An Alternative Model of Inner Awareness by Tom McClelland provides a look at phenomenology, or the study of consciousness in relation to experience, as well as the Ubiquity of Inner Awareness thesis, the proof in favor of it, and the skeptical

To fully understand the complexity of consciousness, it must be defined. However there is no universal accepted definition due to the concept is looked at from many different positions and in different terms. In this essay which will explore altered states affecting consciousness, the definition which will be used is ‘One is aware of surroundings, and is able to make decisions and the ability to apply different experiences to different situations’.

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

Consciousness refers to the relationship and interactions between our mind and its surrounding environments. Consciousness fades when the normal patterns of waking neural activity in the brain are replaced by the patterns characteristic of sleep, or when the tissues of the brain are damaged physically or by intoxicants. We do not have a set explanation has to how brain activity produces consciousness. It is concluded that consciousness is an elemental component of the universe that cannot be discussed or analyzed any further by the human race.

To define consciousness we must make an assumption, that an equilateral state of being is common throughout all who can express it. Be it a normal waking consciousness, or an altered state of behaviour. To develop a testable parameter we rely on physiological responses, which are relative and subjected, if a persons conscious awareness overrides their physical response objective measures become unreliable and thus invalid. Because of this we have struggled to define consciousness, philosophers such as David Chalmers equate the mind and the body to be distinctive seperate forms of sensory transference. Like a passenger in the vehicle of the body, this dualist method of thinking suggest that the mental state can’t be condensed into physical systems.

In order to understand the critical nature of consciousness as it relates to the physical,

Consciousness is often considered as an awareness of oneself, ones thoughts and ones behaviours (REF). It is difficult to comprehensively define, and even more problematic to research due to the internal and subjective nature of reason and sentience. The fact that we cannot experience the consciousness of others makes the process of gathering reliable, empirical research particularly challenging. Introspection can be used to reflect upon and describe our thoughts and feelings, but we cannot be certain whether the descriptions are accurate, or akin to the reflections, as we have no way of definitively verifying whether subjects are in fact able to accurately describe their mental states (REF). The often-ineffable quality of conscious experience

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

As consciousness remains an unsolved mystery to the science world, we know a lot about elements that make up the consciousness. Some of the elements associated with consciousness is one’s unique thoughts, memories, feelings and sensations. These elements are seen not only in human consciousness but in animal conscious as well. We are able to study consciousness by observing the behavior in humans and animals. Observing these actions we are able to see how consciousness affects the subject 's life in an everyday basis.