What is consciousness?
new ideas to the subject: 1. Consciousness in the brain is found in the "ARAS", or Ascending Reticular Activating System. It is a set of brain areas in the ancient part of our brain (forebrain and midbrain) that regulate the sleep/wake cycle. Consciousness is the control of attention. You are attention. All else is just your brain doing its thing, sending thoughts and stimuli to your attention . It is you, who choses what to listen to and what to pay attention to. Everything else a zombie could do. Here are some pieces to the puzzle of consciousness: 4 necessary conditions for consciousness: Store info Process info Independence (choice) Integrated (unified) 5+1 properties: (from integrated information theory) it exists subjective, present, intrinsic has a structure (Integrated?) Specific Unified Axiom of exclusion ( definite ). It has borders, it is limited. my opinion about consciousness one year ago...