• Question: What is consciousness?

    Asked by ray0.0 on 17 Jul 2023.
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      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 17 Jul 2023:

      ability to think with our minds and brains to be aware of our existence and of everyone living on the planet

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      Hannah Scholes answered on 17 Jul 2023:

      That’s a tricky one! 🤔
      If you’re going for the dictionary definition of it it’s “the state of being aware of and responsive to one’s surroundings”, and I suppose its all to do with brain activity. Neuroscientists can link certain kinds of brain activity with certain kinds of experience by using functional MRI scans ( also known as fMRI – a type of scan which can detect brain activity in real time). 🧠 We now know which kinds of brain activity are associated with feelings of hunger, pleasure, pain, etc., so I would say that’s consciousness as well!

      What a brilliant question! Love it! 😃

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      Kip Heath answered on 21 Jul 2023:

      Love the question! The ability to think for ourselves – if you think about AI, it doesn’t truly think for itself, it relies on the information that has been fed into it.

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