Consciousness - How your brain creates the feeling of being

What Is Consciousness? Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers.

Consciousness is everything you experience. It is the tune stuck in your head, the sweetness of chocolate mousse, the throbbing pain of a toothache, the fierce love for your child and the bitter knowledge that, eventually, all feelings will end.

The origin and nature of these experiences, sometimes called qualia, have been a mystery from antiquity to the present. Many modern analytic philosophers of mind, most prominently perhaps Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, find the existence of consciousness such an intolerable affront to what they believe should be a meaningless universe of matter and the void that they declare to be an illusion. That is, they either deny that qualia exist or argue that they can never be meaningfully studied by science.

If that assertion was true, this essay would be concise. I must explain why you and almost everybody else are convinced we have feelings. If I have a tooth abscess, however, a sophisticated argument to persuade me that my pain is delusional will not lessen its torment one iota. I have minimal sympathy for this desperate solution to the mind-body problem, so I shall move on.

Most scholars accept consciousness as a given and seek to understand its relationship to the objective world described by science. More than a quarter of a century ago, Francis Crick and I decided to set aside philosophical discussions on consciousness (which have engaged scholars since at least the time of Aristotle) and instead search for its physical footprints. What about a highly excitable piece of brain matter that gives rise to consciousness? Once we can understand that, we hope to get closer to solving the more fundamental problem.

Qualia: the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena.

What Is Consciousness? Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers

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What is conscious consciousness? It is the subjective experience of being aware of one's thoughts, feelings, sensations, and surroundings. It is often described as being awake and perceiving one's environment and internal mental states.

Critical aspects of conscious consciousness:

Awareness: The ability to perceive and process information about one's internal and external environment.

Subjective experience: The personal, first-person perspective of what it feels like to have conscious experiences.

Wakefulness: The state of being awake and responsive to stimuli, as opposed to being asleep or unconscious.

Self-awareness: The recognition of one's thoughts, feelings, and existence.

Intentionality: The ability to direct attention and focus on specific aspects of experience.

Consciousness is a complex phenomenon studied across various disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science. Despite extensive research, no universally accepted definition or explanation exists for how consciousness arises from physical processes in the brain.

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What is consciousness?

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Every morning, when I wake up, I think I'm still alive.
What happens when we die?
Is it the same as never waking up?
Are we in a state of being dead every day?

On the other hand, in Japan, there is a Shinto belief that we are all originally Buddhas and that when we die, we return to Buddhahood.
So death is not scary, and since our grandmothers and ancestors are all there, we can return to where they are.

There is also a belief that even if we die and become Buddhas, we become mountain or river Gods and stay close to our current families.
In Japan, during the summer Obon festival, they can return to their respective homes and celebrate with their living family members, including their dead relatives.

Actually, my house is my father-in-law's house, and although it's been several years since he died, I can still feel him around me, and sometimes I can imagine him talking like this if he were alive.

Again, what is the conscious consciousness world we are in now? Is it a temporary state?
Will we gradually lose conscious consciousness, unable to distinguish between this world and another world, and then die?

In any case, consciousness, or being alive, is as familiar to us as waking up and going to bed every day.