I believe consciousness is a carrier signal like the faint hum we hear when
a radio station is on but silent. It is modulated like a radio signal by
sensory input from external and internal sources. All animals have it but
only man with his abstract reasoning ability is able to theorize its
existence. Modern man experiences as many inputs from the speech and
conceptual centers of his mind as he does from the world outside. We can
never experience pure consciousness because we can never silence the
continuous influx of sensory data; but we intuit its existence so strongly
that we speak of it with absolute confidence in its facticity. m.a.
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From: "selva" <[email protected]>
To: "Everything List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: consciousness
On Jul 1, 4:23 pm, selva kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
Is consciousness causally effective ?
I found this question in previous threads,but I didn't find a answer.
I believe consciousness is a monitoring system (aka awareness)
When our hand is moved obeying some computations,there is a ON-SCREEN
DISPLAY going on in the brain: " my hand is moving "
When we are learning something ,DISPLAY : "your are learning this and
this " and saves it with a lot of tags in it,so that when you learn
something new which includes a tagged word,it opens the old saved data
and updates it.
Without this monitoring and liaison system our brain stumbles.
And this monitoring system is acts only when the actions are related
to the cerebrum of the brain and not to cerebellum where primary motor
functions are saved.
This is why we are not concentrating on our speech while we are
speaking.
Thus,in my belief, in the absence of this monitoring system,the
functions of cerebrum gets affected but not that of cerebellum.
Thats why we can speak even while we are asleep. so,casually effective
in case of cerebrum but not in case of cerebellum.
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