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Where do you feel your consciousness to be?

willow11 said:
^Yes, but is it brain activity that generates or receives? :)
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(I'm aware that this is an ancient post.) Your question about whether brain activity generates or receives consciousness is based on the assumption that consciousness and brain activity are two separate things. In my opinion, they're the same thing. Brain activity is what it looks like objectively, consciousness is what it looks like subjectively.
 
While this sounds like my generally favored approach, I think there are some minor conceptual snags here. Namely, if we deem neural activity (measured objectively) and conscious experience as aspects of the same phenomenon, can we still coherently talk about them being set in reciprocal causal relation? For example, it is the case that lacking hippocampal neuroplasticity plays a key causal role in producing depression (in interaction with numerous other factors), but it is also the case that circumstances which promote depression tend to reduce neuroplasticity in this same neural circuit. Maybe in this example, this reciprocal relation is functionally equivalent to deeming signaling in neural circuits and one's ongoing experience as two aspects of being human, ie an agent in interaction with its environment. Maybe this example works because the function of this neural circuit and related aspects of experience are just two characteristics of a complex, multiply determined system (with entailed internal causal relations) set in motion.

ebola
(just thinking aloud, without much coherence :P)
 
consciousness is infinite in infinite space. its not in your body nor we should call it our own.

why infinite? because you can be conscious about your big toe, then your head, then something tickling, ect. or be conscious of love, peace, caring.

where was ''your'' consciousness? how can you call yours the consciousness of all that you are conscious of?

consciousness is always moving, always changing, and is infinite in its possibilities. we think its related to the body because we limit the consciousness in our body and think its ours, but its not our consciousness.
 
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TheAppleCore said:
(I'm aware that this is an ancient post.) Your question about whether brain activity generates or receives consciousness is based on the assumption that consciousness and brain activity are two separate things. In my opinion, they're the same thing. Brain activity is what it looks like objectively, consciousness is what it looks like subjectively.
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Hey man :)

I guess I think of consciousness as 'that which we are aware of' which is hugely limiting, but in that definition there is no real room for exerting fine control (or indeed having detailed awareness) over things like hormone release, micro-neural activity or peptide synthesis, all activities the brain can be seen as generating and regulating. Its this that makes me aware that our consciousness is restricted to the upper level of our existence and only a very partial 'reality'. And the flurry of activity underneath the conscious realm is what leads me to believe that the brain does indeed act independantly of our conscious control. Whilst even that that we do control may be illusory :\ :D Hmm..
 
totally
the body and mind are separate. we are not in control of the outer conditions, but can be totally in control of our consciousness.
sure, we can decide to move and then the body do it, ect, but we are very limited with the outer world as its not related to consciousness.

your consciousness is the root of all you think exist. theres no point in trying to be aware of all that there is to know in the outer world, what we are all looking for is inside our consciousness. mainly, when stilling that consciousness, with concentration, you become aware (conscious) of a inner self much more calm and peaceful, happy and blissful, hidden under that talkative mind :) and then you find that purity that we all have within us.

thats why purity of consciousness is very important as your consciousness is in our hand, our control and the only think we can train to find happiness.

or something like that...

willow11 said:
Hey man :)

I guess I think of consciousness as 'that which we are aware of' which is hugely limiting, but in that definition there is no real room for exerting fine control (or indeed having detailed awareness) over things like hormone release, micro-neural activity or peptide synthesis, all activities the brain can be seen as generating and regulating. Its this that makes me aware that our consciousness is restricted to the upper level of our existence and only a very partial 'reality'. And the flurry of activity underneath the conscious realm is what leads me to believe that the brain does indeed act independantly of our conscious control. Whilst even that that we do control may be illusory :\ :D Hmm..
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A combination of your physical, emotional, mental, etheric, and spiritual bodies, or a "complex" of many consciousness-layers.
 
Here's a full text journal article covering this topic (with "soul" substituted for "consciousness"): The anatomic location of the soul ...
The ancient Egyptians felt it was in the heart, the ancient Greeks the lungs (think "aspire" or "inspire"), and most of us moderns the brain. I usually feel the location as expected: behind and between the eyes. I assume this has to do with the eyes being the "window to the soul" (so between them is an average) and all the evidence that brain effects equal consciousness effects (and therefore I ought to feel "I'm" there).

The best evidence and arguments I've come across suggest there is no soul or self as we sense it and all levels of matter have a subjective property (i.e. something that it is like to be it), with the self being a profoundly compounded form of matter's intrasubjective being. So it doesn't surprise me there's been little agreement across cultures and history.
 
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Consciousness resides within the supermassive black hole at each galaxies centre and is projected via gravity onto a 2 dimensional membrane at the trailing edge of the universe.
 
My back pocket. Because I live (and trust) blindly like I don't have it.
 
'Where is 'me'? Where is 'me'?

Answer that, and there ...Consciousness Is

"Monks, I will teach you the All. Listen & pay close attention. I will speak."
"As you say, lord," the monks responded.
The Blessed One said, "What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & tactile sensations, intellect & ideas. This, monks, is called the All.
Anyone who would say, 'Repudiating this All, I will describe another,' if questioned on what exactly might be the grounds for his statement, would be unable to explain, and furthermore, would be put to grief. Why? Because it lies beyond range."
 
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