The Theory Of Consciousness And Its Effects On Society

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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.

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

Peter Hacker, a 20th century philosopher, argues that the current notions, held by neuroscientists and philosophers, regarding the brain and consciousness are illogical. Subsequently, he discusses, in his opinion, the current misconceptions we have today.

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

The neuronal basis of consciousness. All conscious states are caused by lower-level brain processes. We do not know all the details of exactly how consciousness is caused by brain processes, but there is no doubt that it is in fact. The thesis that all of our conscious states, from feeling thirsty to experiencing mystical ecstasies are caused by brain processes is now established by an overwhelming amount of evidence. Indeed, the currently most exciting research in the biological sciences is to try to figure out exactly how it works. What are the neuronal correlates of consciousness and how do they function to cause conscious states?

In the philosophical world there is a constant controversial debate of the mind body problem. This debate focuses on the different interpretations of the brain and its correlation to the consciousness. Philosophical theorists have used several approaches to explain this extremely subjective matter. The idea that the conscious being apart of the body or mental is diverse and theoretically proven to an indirect statement in comparison to the various arguments provided. Thus one may need to take a direct approach to explaining the phenomena. Many may believe that there is no precise accurate answer, but this vindicated perspective gives a clear and concise understanding to an oblivious reader. Of the four arguments, I find the functionalism perspective to be the most accurate in explaining the mind body phenomenon.

• ‘Consciousness’ can be perceived only indirectly through the effects it produces in the physical matter. However, THE CAUSES OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE TO THE SENSES AT ALL. Some true causes become accessible only through DELIBERATION – ability to figure out the new causes on the basis of the cognitive base which already exists as part of ‘Consciousness’ called ‘memory’. Of course, the ‘Consciousness’ is always older than the current ‘Organism’ it temporarily resides in.

The nature of human consciousness is ever debatable, questionable and somewhat unexplainable. We continuously make conscious decisions without recognition for how we as a species are capable of doing so, it is understood by materialistic science that our consciousness is a product of our brain activity and nothing more however there is an abundance of research that suggests this may not be the case and our conscious mind extends into our environment ultimately connecting us to

For starters consciousness is a mystical network. It has several different extraordinary characters. One David Chalmers says it has a “unified and a differentiated character”, that he feels defines consciousness and makes it simple. But is it really that simplistic?? I mean consciousness is something everyone is aware of at every waking moment of life until death. Never has it been something

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

Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, “anything that we are at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspects of our lives.” Searching for the word consciousness in the dictionary, a definition of ‘the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself’ could be found. It can also be described as sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to think or feel, and the executive control of the mind. Many theories of where consciousness comes from have arisen, but there seems to be an underlying theme of what consciousness is, in the broader sense, to most theories.

Consciousness is about being “awake” on many levels not merely awareness of a particular situation or man-made paradigm.

The relation of consciousness to the material world is puzzle, which has its origin in dualism, a philosophy of mind which posits their fundamental separation. Dualism, in turn, has its roots in folk wisdom. The belief that humans are more than bodies and that there is something in human nature that survives bodily death has its origins in prehistory; it becomes explicit in the mythology of Ancient Egypt and Assyria and was formulated into a philosophical position in the Platonic thought of Ancient Greece. But the contemporary view that the interaction of consciousness with matter poses a problem which may be beyond scientific understanding can be traced to a clearer formulation of