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2 days ago · Sam Harris observes: "At the level of your experience, you are not a body of cells, organelles, and atoms; you are consciousness and its ever-changing contents". [48] Seen in this way, consciousness is a subjectively experienced, ever-present field in which things (the contents of consciousness) come and go.
Jul 3, 2024 · Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the brain produces our inner world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes. A thought experiment with “pain-pleasure ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Consciousness, a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as “the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind.” (Read Yuval Noah Harari’s Britannica essay on “Nonconscious Man.”) In the early 19th century the concept was variously considered. Some philosophers.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 27, 2024 · A variety of medical conditions and drugs can affect your level of consciousness, from having dementia or lethargy to being in a coma. Sometimes impaired consciousness is reversible, while other times it is not. This article covers normal and altered states of consciousness as well as coma classifications.
- Angela Morrow, RN
6 days ago · The word consciousness is used in a variety of ways that need to be distinguished. Sometimes the word means merely any human mental activity at all (as when one talks about the “history of consciousness”), and sometimes it means merely being awake (as in As the anesthetic wore off, the animal regained consciousness ).
- Georges Rey
Jun 19, 2024 · The conscious mind is what we are aware of and includes our thoughts, perceptions, and feelings.
6 days ago · Here the authors find a number of influences of spontaneous brain activity on conscious perception and further illuminates the underlying mechanisms.
