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Consciousness in sentence

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Science is objective, consciousness is subjective, therefore there cannot be a science of consciousness.
Okay, now I promised you to tell you some of the outrageous things said about consciousness.
So consciousness is an illusion.
And four: Maybe consciousness exists, but it can't make any difference to the world.
People always say consciousness is very hard to define.
Dreams are a form of consciousness on this definition.
If you're not talking about that, you're not talking about consciousness.
Let's specify the exact features of consciousness, so that we can then answer those four objections that I made to it.
But for that distinction between how things consciously seem and how they really are, you can't make that distinction for the very existence of consciousness, because where the very existence of consciousness is concerned, if it consciously seems to you that you are conscious, you are conscious.
You cannot doubt the existence of your own consciousness.
Okay, that's the first feature of consciousness.
Another feature of consciousness is that it comes in unified conscious fields.
That is the key to understanding the enormous power of consciousness.
Okay, the next feature of consciousness, after this marvelous unified conscious field, is that it functions causally in our behavior.
That's how it's possible for consciousness to function causally.
Okay, now with that in mind, with going through these various features of consciousness, let's go back and answer some of those early objections.
Well, the first one I said was, consciousness doesn't exist, it's an illusion.
But the second one had an incredible influence, and may still be around, and that is, "Well, if consciousness exists, it's really something else.
It's really a digital computer program running in your brain and that's what we need to do to create consciousness is get the right program.
We know that actual human consciousness has something more than that.
It creates a reality of money, property, government, marriage, CERN conferences, cocktail parties and summer vacations, and all of those are creations of consciousness.
Computation only exists relative to consciousness.
So the objection that you can't have an objective science of consciousness because it's subjective and science is objective, that's a pun.
The mistake was — and you can go back and read the literature on this, you can see this over and over — they think if you accept the irreducible existence of consciousness, you're giving up on science.
And the message I want to leave you with is, consciousness has to become accepted as a genuine biological phenomenon, as much subject to scientific analysis as any other phenomenon in biology, or, for that matter, the rest of science.
My belief is that the airplane of the future will get its own consciousness.
The brain stem then projects forward and bathes the cortex, this wonderfully wrinkly bit over here, with neurotransmitters that keep us awake and essentially provide us with our consciousness.
I mean, you have 100 billion nerve cells, little wisps of protoplasm, interacting with each other, and from this activity emerges the whole spectrum of abilities that we call human nature and human consciousness.
Now, working memory is that part of our consciousness that we are aware of at any given time of day.
In fact, it is said that in the collective consciousness of Africa, we get to experience the deepest parts of our own humanity through our interactions with others.
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