Neuroscience time. This came to me in a dream.
Consciousness the process of living things is a function of the brain, reliant upon physical neurons, electrical activity etc.
Consciousness the substance is absolute nothingness which is completely necessary for there to ever be anything at all. Without it there would be nothing at all. Just eternal nothing.
Stop thinking in theory and imagination. Think sheerly in what is your experience: Turn off your consciousness (death, pre-birth, anaesthesia), what is there during the time where there is no consciousness?... Nothing at all. Not even space or time... If NO creature was conscious, space, time, and ALL things would have zero actuality whatsoever. It would just be an eternal anaesthesia for anyone.
Space and time would be merely figments of unrealized potential that never gain an actuality.
The importance: Consciousness is what is naturally experienced in response to ANY sensory data. Even private data like thoughts and emotions should be considered sensory here. Emotions have a felt component, thoughts have a "heard" component, a voice in your head. Or if you're imagining images, a visual component: This is sensory...
So, there is not any singular magical place in the brain where consciousness is "generated". To render someone unconscious, all sensory inputs need to be shut off. THAT is what is causing unconsciousness, rather than any sort of "master switch". E.g. if you just shut off eyesight, the person is still conscious. You need to shut off each functional sensory input including thought and feeling. Awareness requires there be something to be aware OF. If there's nothing you are aware of, there is no awareness. ALL functioning sensory channels cause a living thing to be conscious. The process of every one must be interrupted.
Consciousness the process of living things is a function of the brain, reliant upon physical neurons, electrical activity etc.
Consciousness the substance is absolute nothingness which is completely necessary for there to ever be anything at all. Without it there would be nothing at all. Just eternal nothing.
Stop thinking in theory and imagination. Think sheerly in what is your experience: Turn off your consciousness (death, pre-birth, anaesthesia), what is there during the time where there is no consciousness?... Nothing at all. Not even space or time... If NO creature was conscious, space, time, and ALL things would have zero actuality whatsoever. It would just be an eternal anaesthesia for anyone.
Space and time would be merely figments of unrealized potential that never gain an actuality.
The importance: Consciousness is what is naturally experienced in response to ANY sensory data. Even private data like thoughts and emotions should be considered sensory here. Emotions have a felt component, thoughts have a "heard" component, a voice in your head. Or if you're imagining images, a visual component: This is sensory...
So, there is not any singular magical place in the brain where consciousness is "generated". To render someone unconscious, all sensory inputs need to be shut off. THAT is what is causing unconsciousness, rather than any sort of "master switch". E.g. if you just shut off eyesight, the person is still conscious. You need to shut off each functional sensory input including thought and feeling. Awareness requires there be something to be aware OF. If there's nothing you are aware of, there is no awareness. ALL functioning sensory channels cause a living thing to be conscious. The process of every one must be interrupted.
