We have access to a plethora of information. Some are just a cross section, made up, and or regurgitated from the recesses of the mind.
We have experience, thoughts, actions, beliefs. They all permeate the changing remote stable and unstable recesses of our mind.
Simply to take trips through the lens of our senses are not enough to express the organic experience.
Consciousness is the result of our conscious mind working with our unconscious or subconscious mind.
To pose the question in a relative way, “How does the human body regulate itself?”
The answer is complex at best, but to examine fine quality questions, may point to an attractive image, what is really going on in the arena we call consciousness?
The terms of reference for this essay, relies on stream of consciousness, consciousness, sub-consciousness, unconsciousness and the idea of how the mind really works.
To put any order to our thoughts we rely heavily on the brain, the mind is just a social construct to help communicate about what is happening in the brain itself. Then we really need to put a lot of structure in place, mostly this structure is expressed physically as what we perceive from our senses, what we learn from experience and what we learn using our faculties.
We like to think, feel, act, and believe in a hodgepodge way.
We impose order on it to make end products. We have produced a method of learning called science, but there are many studies of knowledge from various fields within science and without.
In the final analysis, it is sure to be a combination of body parts like the functions of the brain, but we process the senses in many debatable ways. How we experience is another debate.
Obviously, it is hard to come to any consensus on this topic of consciousness, it is probably happening in a singular way in each person. Collectively we are dependant upon communication methods like cooperation and collaboration. But nothing is that simple.
I believe consciousness is a combination of all the above. Yet science is beginning to explore the question. Many believe the new science is some kind of matrix. For now, I base it on my own experience, my own balanced state of mind and current acceptable science.
That’s not to say I am a mad hatter, but it is a fascinating problem, what is consciousness?