• Question: What is consciousness?

    Asked by anon-267480 on 5 Nov 2020. This question was also asked by anon-267387.
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      K Sasitharan answered on 5 Nov 2020:

      I think consciousness is just ‘being aware of one’s surrounding’. It’s just staying alert to what is happening around us and responding accordingly.

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      Adrien Chauvet answered on 5 Nov 2020: last edited 5 Nov 2020 2:42 pm

      Something that science does not (yet) explain!

      (i.e. we do not explain how to pass from a bunch of neurones connected to each others to a whole that can think, speak, imagine, …)
      So far, only religions can give you some answers.

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      Daisy Shearer answered on 7 Nov 2020:

      Ah, this is a fascinating subject. There are many theories surrounding consciousness but mostly in the fields of neuroscience and philosophy (not physics). I do know about a recent physics-adjacent theory that proposes that consciousness may be caused by the electromagnetic waves generated by the electric current when neurons fire in the brain. This is the kind of question that I think scientists will be able to answer in the future but right now we are fairly clueless. Maybe you could be one of the scientists who research it!

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