The consciousness of each people is their self-experience & is unique. Does this consciousness available only for human beings? Mind is thinking about something all the time, Where is this mind in our body? What is consciousness & What is the science behind it?
We have taste buds in our tongue which are used to sense the taste of food. But recent researches tell us that, taste buds just send signals to the brain, & the brain is where the tastes are being sensed. So taste is being processed in the brain. We hear some sound, does sound there? What is sound? Sound is just the vibration of air molecules, that touches the air drum & then go like a signal to the brain. The various patterns of vibration of air molecules are being heard as sounds. So there is nothing called sound, the brain is perceiving something as sound. The smell is also not processed in the nose, but the brain. So the inputs that are being got by the sensory organs, are being processed only in the brain to give us some consciousness.
So, if there is no brain we can't process any information in the world. Because all these senses are just an illusion created by our brain. Many scientists & philosophers are trying to decode the truth behind this mind. Even though the research was done from the point of view of philosophy & psychology, Francis Crick in the 1980s, was the first to research the science behind consciousness. He has the main credit for finding the helical shape of the DNA. Using EEG & MRI, researchers say that consciousness is in our brain. But why do we have consciousness is still an unanswered question? The reason for this is that science is very objective, but consciousness is subjective. Consciousness is very unique & subjective, each & everyone experiences a different type of consciousness.
What will you feel when you see a beautiful T-shirt in a shop? What is the price, Will it fits me, what is the brand, Will my friends like this? Likewise, many thoughts would be going on in your head, but you have seen only a single T-shirt. There are many types of consciousness from simple to complex. For example, Trichoplax adhaerens is the simplest evolved organism. When it needs food its movement is very fast & after that it becomes normal. It doesn't go in a particular direction, it doesn't have consciousness about its environment.
Even though these organisms do not have nervous systems & neurons, it uses a protein called "peptides" in cells to process these kinds of information. An example of the next level of consciousness organism is a worm called "dugesia tigrina". It has a very simple nervous system in its body. These organisms don't have eyes but have chemoreceptors. Using these receptors they can sense smell & light.,
The next level of consciousness is related to eyesight & vision. Using its vision it can see its food & eat. The next level of consciousness is thinking about the future. For example, ants store food for the rainy season. Losing a small thing for a big reward in the future, for example, Some Cranes use small fish to catch big fish.
Now just think of its thought, It can sense other organisms & their hunger, also they might eat its food, This bird thinks of itself from the shoes of other organisms. It thinks from the perspective of other organisms, just like playing a chess game, by predicting how will the opponent does his next move. Likewise, this sort of consciousness is seen in some organisms like Scrub-Jay. Thinking from others' perspectives is the most complex consciousness. We human beings have also evolved from this type of consciousness.
On average, there are 86 billion neurons are there in our Human Brain. This consciousness happens by the magic of these neurons, so only it is so hard for us to understand. How many processes are happening inside these 86 billion neurons? The size of a neuron is very very small that is at the quantum level. So only we could see people relate consciousness & quantum. The reason why we can't say, why the consciousness occurs in us is that A giant bone is being found by someone, it was that that it was of a giant human, but as years passed they gathered similar bones to say that it was dinosaur's bone, but many didn't believe it.
Then after that only, they concluded that many types of dinosaurs have lived before. Maxwell in the 19th century, found a new field "electromagnetism", by linking electric & magnetic fields. We have to break the fundamental idea to bring a new thing. Likewise, consciousness is also to be kept under a special fundamental entity, to learn more about it. The revolution in neural science is the invention of the "Theory of Consciousness". Philosophers like Osho & J.K say that the whole universe is made of consciousness. It is not a single consciousness, but a Unified consciousness. This unified consciousness exists in a collective form.
This is the same in Yoga & meditation to bring out the collective consciousness. In our phones, we have Siri, Alexa, etc that can answer our questions, this is intelligence & if it has intelligence doesn't mean it should have consciousness. The difference between man & machines is this consciousness. A machine can feel that it is a machine, but a human can feel like a human. Scientist & author Lyall Watson says that, if our brain would have been simple then we would not have consciousness. Because the brain is complex, we can think complex & have consciousness. So if the brain would have been simple, we would have also been very simple.
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