CONSCIOUSNESS (DESCRIPTION)

Updated edition 2023

Consciousness

(Explanation)

On the one hand, consciousness arises through increased perception with the senses (the sensors^*) when certain thresholds are exceeded. Of course, these also immediately activate all affected neural networks in order to be able to react.

On the other hand, what you do consciously - the knowledge - (far more than 90% happens unconsciously).

This awareness (as concentration) is also only possible through increased perception with the sensors.

(*Inner Sensors are for recording of environmental stimuli and body states and their forwarding.)

The function of consciousness is to take a closer look at something.

Due to a lack of information, consciousness alone cannot make a decision. Even the human mind (as an information seeker in the neuron networks) can only contribute partial information through its activities.

Ultimately, decisions are: concerted results from many neural networks to achieve aims.

The belief that we control ourselves with our consciousness is hardly questioned because the feeling forces this on us with apparent evidence.

This is how we usually experience ourselves as a person in whom consciousness makes all decisions.

The brain is viewed as an aid: as a carrier of memory. In addition, it is recognized that inherited systems and skills are stored here.

It is often less clear that it also regulates all feelings, thinking, speaking, etc.

Because if you take a closer look, it can be realized that the brain directs us, in which the SELF (i.e., its aims) is also located. This is an essential participant and decision maker.

(For normal, daily life, however, it is usually irrelevant to know that the brain controls you: you act and react to what is important for you.)

But it is interesting for everyone who wants to know why there is consciousness:

1. The brain shows us the world according to its aims. (It is well known that it selects the world).

2. Consciousness sees them in this form plus what the senses then absorb.

3. It sends this modified image back to the brain. If this decides it is important, increased attention is generated in the senses.

4. These then shows us the world that may have changed as a result of the information.

5. Consciousness now sees them in this form plus what the senses are now absorbing.

6. It sends this information back to the brain.

and so on.

These sequences are repeated every millisecond. Depending on the value, with normal attention or with increased senses (consciousness).

So: what you z. B. sees is initially made exclusively by the brain, which shows it to us on the basis of its aims. Then what is experienced by the sensors is sent to the brain, which processes it. And then, depending on the deviation, shows the consciousness a corrected view.

Therefore, consciousness only becomes aware of its milliseconds after the brain has decided.

Because the brain always decides because it has innumerable information in it. Consciousness never decides because it is only experienced and very limited in what the senses can simultaneously absorb from the brain.

Appropriate decisions can only be made with sufficient information.

It follows very clearly from this: consciousness or normal attention cannot interpret the world sufficiently for decisions, because this is the domain of the brain; it does not have the information that was more or less stored.

The brain cannot experience the present clearly enough, it needs this information from the consciousness (the senses) in order to possibly correct its interpretation of the world and decide differently.

The senses (awareness, attention, subliminal absorption) experience through the stimuli.

This experience is then absorbed in the brain - if it has value for the brain - and processed.

Of course, awareness does not decide. The brain makes decisions based on the information and aims it contains.

The SELF decides with - about its respective midpoints.

If it does not get current information, it can of course only judge what is in it.

Ultimately, it's about perception. Either the normal one, which is more general (like moving through a familiar environment). Or an attentive, conscious one, by strengthening the senses (e.g., when you are in an unknown area).

Perception therefore has the task of giving information to the brain through experience. This may generate new learning processes, make corrections, change settings, activate aims, etc.

The brain creates suggestions, anticipates them, anticipates results – consciousness experiences and transmits the resulting perspectives and information to the brain.

If something is currently important to us, something dangerous, unusual or new occurs, decisions or activities of the neuronal networks cross a certain threshold in the brain, it strengthens our senses. As a result, one perceives the outside and inside world more intensely and consciously. You experience them more vividly.

The intensified senses, i.e., the consciousness, then send the recorded information to the brain – especially to the neuronal networks affected by it, which (largely with their feelings) may make a change in the assessment and attitude. This result is perceived again, etc.

If the brain ultimately decides against the feeling, you can get a bad gut feeling. This arises because the aim, the decision, is not carried out in a different but similar situation, which intensifies the gut feeling.

It is the nature of the aims: If an aim is not achieved, then it is emotionally compelling to pursue it further.

Appendix: Definition of Thought

Thinking is a process that searches within itself - starting from the thinker's goals (his midpoints, i.e. neural networks) - to get answers to questions.

Everything that man has inherited and experienced can be found here – in whatever form.

This results in the loop: question > answer > question again > answer etc.