Consciousness

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Consciousness

• What, where, how, when?

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What is consciousness?? self awareness? But
isnt this just another expression for
consciousness? having the capability of
thought? but what are the defining features of
thought? Learning? Adaptation to the
environment? Self monitoring? having
emotions? Does this mean that our
non-emotional thoughts are not conscious?
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Consciousnessis an emergent property or cerebral
activityand is an integral component of the
brain process that functions as an essential
constituent action and exerts a directive
holistic form of control over the flow pattern of
cerebral excitation. (Roger W. Sperry, 1969).
In other words, consciousness is something that
is true of the brain, and it involves the control
or production of voluntary actions, and it exerts
control over individual mental processes. Its
a definition that might capture some of our
intuitions about what must be true of
consciousness, but it doesnt really provide
insight into what really drives consciousness.
That is, consciousness, in this definition, is
defined only by what it must involve, not by how
it accomplishes these things.
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Is consciousness a direct consequence of the
physical brain? We know that consciousness is
associated with brains, but are we comfortable
asserting a one-to-one correspondence between
brain and consciousness? I have a brainvs.
I am a brain. Which seems more comfortable?
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