I Theories of consciousness IN SCIENCE
Despite advances in our understanding of the neural correlates of
consciousness, the question remains: How does consciousness arise from
brain activity? A BIG QUESTION WHICH REMAINS UNSOLVED TILL DATE.
Scientists have proposed several theories. Two prominent ideas are global
neuronal workspace theory (GNWT) and integrated information theory (IIT).
Global neuronal workspace
In brief, GNWT proposes that there is a network of long-range connections
that span the brain, called the global workspace. Neural information
becomes conscious when it gains access to this workspace, which allows it
to be broadcast throughout the brain, including to specialized hubs for
memory, perception, motor output, and attention. Crucially, it is a case of
“winner takes all” for a particular interpretation of sensory data when it
gains access to the global workspace. According to Prof. Michael Graziano,
professor of psychology and neuroscience at the Princeton Neuroscience
Institute, NJ, and Dr. AaronSchurger, assistant professor in the Crean
College of Health and Behavioural Sciences at Chapman University in Irvine,
CA, this explains, for example, “bistable” optical illusions. Two examples
of these are the Necker cube and face-vase illusion, in which conscious
awareness switches between two alternative interpretations of the same
sensory data.
Integrated information
The communication and integration of information between brain regions is
at the heart of many theories of consciousness. One of these, IIT, uses a
complex equation to calculate an entity’s degree of consciousness from how
well it integrates information. According to the equation, even inanimate
objects such as rocks and teapots have a glimmer of consciousness. This is
in keeping with the philosophical theory of panpsychism, which proposes
that consciousness is a fundamental property of all physical systems.
II CONSCIOUSNESS IN VEDAS
Except Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, no other religion analyses
or explains the consciousness. Hence Hindu Vedas alone had done heavy
research on this score. The total life itself id dedicated only to reach it
till the goal is achieved. Hence scientists Rishis were able to easily
explain what it is in 4 states: JAKRADHA, SWAPNA, SUSHUPTI AND TURIUM. The
consciousness is leading you by your mind when you openly watching what is
happening all around you (Jakradha); what you were not able to understand
or resolve or been able to put up with or indirectly asking for the
solutions are all, reflective images, in sign codes, only sometimes
understood fully and many a times missing the bus (Swapna); almost in rem
or a status meditation when you do not know where exactly you are, in that
depth, you understand your mind the relative theory of consciousness
existing as Paramatma (sushupti); when the mind retained that
consciousness, now one in a million travel into that realm, deep into and
feel the real happiness (Turium) . So consciousness explained simply and
explained in depth through the Upanishads. Where modern science is stumped
as on date, old path of dharma said what it is; but it is not a theory to
adopt; but a perception to attend inside that nature.
III Research on Perception and perceptive conscience and the
consciousness.
1 Hemi spatial neglect is a condition where patients are unaware
of a part of their environment, not due to visual impairments, but due to
attention issues.
2 The researchers identified five clusters of electrical activity
associated with the maintenance and redirection of attention in
frontoparietal networks.
3 The findings challenge current hypotheses that attention and conscious
perception operate in isolation, providing supporting evidence of their
interaction.
*Source: *Paris Brain Institute
*Almost half of patients who experienced a stroke in the right cerebral
hemisphere later develop a very unusual symptom: they lose the ability to
perceive what is happening in the left side of space.*
As a result, they tend to eat only the right side of their plate, ignore
people on their left, and have great difficulty finding their way around.
This disorder, known as hemi spatial neglect, does not involve basic visual
abilities, which remain intact.
“Clinical studies tell us that attention is necessary, though not
sufficient, for conscious perception, but we didn’t know how this is
translated in the brain. Thus, we tried to uncover the mechanisms of
attention processing in frontoparietal networks.”
- The second part focuses on the issue of whether conscious
perception is rich or sparse. If the content of perceptual consciousness is
richer than the content that can be cognitively accessed,
then consciousness overflows access and thus access cannot be necessary
for consciousness.
· The problem of perceptual consciousness—the question of how our
subjective experiences (colours as we see them; sounds as we hear them;
tastes, etc., as we feel them) could be accounted for in terms of brain
processes—is often regarded as the greatest unsolved mystery of our times.
“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and
the most mysterious. There is nothing we know about more directly than
consciousness, but it is far from clear how to reconcile it with everything
else we know. Why does it exist? What does it do? How could it possibly
arise from lumpy gray matter?” -David J. Chalmers, *The Conscious Mind: In
Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)*
Key to understanding the link between the physical and mental
worlds are internal representations—also referred to as mental
representations or cognitive representations. Subjective experience is
built from internal representations.
Hence perception or perceptive conscience and perceptive
consciousness are beyond cognitive recognition as well as the matter.
IV Now perception when set against the Vedic system, it is so
easily explained by the scientists Rishis.
*मात्रास्पर्शास्तु* *कौन्तेय* *शीतोष्णसुखदु**:**खदा**: **|*
*आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व* *भारत* *|| **14**||*
*mātrā-sparśhās tu kaunteya śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino ’nityās
tāns-titikṣhasva bhārata*
*mātrā-sparśhāḥ* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/matra-sparshah>—contact
of the senses with the sense objects; *tu*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/tu>—indeed; *kaunteya*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/kaunteya>—Arjun, the son of Kunti;
*śhīta* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/shita>—winter; *uṣhṇa*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/ushna>—summer; *sukha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/sukha>—happiness; *duḥkha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/duhkha>—distress; *dāḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/dah>—give; *āgama*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/agama>—come; *apāyinaḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/apayinah>—go; *anityāḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/anityah>—non-permanent; *tān*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/tan>—them; *titikṣhasva*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/titikshasva>—tolerate; *bhārata*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/bharata>—descendant of the Bharat
*matra-sparshas tu kaunteya shitoshna-sukha-duhkha-dah agamapayino ’nityas
tans-titikshasva bharata*
Translation
*BG 2.14**: O son of Kunti, the contact between the senses and the sense
objects gives rise to fleeting perceptions of happiness and distress. These
are non-permanent, and come and go like the winter and summer seasons. O
descendent of Bharat, one must learn to tolerate them without being
disturbed.*
*श्रोत्रं* *चक्षु**: **स्पर्शनं* *च* *रसनं* *घ्राणमेव* *च* *|*
*अधिष्ठाय* *मनश्चायं* *विषयानुपसेवते* *|| **9**||*
*śhrotraṁ chakṣhuḥ sparśhanaṁ cha rasanaṁ ghrāṇam eva cha adhiṣhṭhāya
manaśh chāyaṁ viṣhayān upasevate*
*śhrotram* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/shrotram>—ears; *chakṣhuḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/chakshuh>—eyes; *sparśhanam*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/sparshanam>—the sense of touch; *cha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/cha>—and; *rasanam*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/rasanam>—tongue; *ghrāṇam*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/ghranam>—nose; *eva*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/eva>—also; *cha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/cha>—and; *adhiṣhṭhāya*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/adhishthaya>—grouped around; *manaḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/manah>—mind; *cha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/cha>—also; *ayam*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/ayam>—they; *viṣhayān*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/vishayan>—sense objects; *upasevate*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/upasevate>—savors
*shrotram chakshuh sparshanam cha rasanam ghranam eva cha adhishthaya
manash chayam vishayan upasevate*
Translation
*BG 15.9**: Using the sense perceptions of the ears, eyes, skin, tongue,
and nose, which are grouped around the mind, the embodied soul savors the
objects of the senses.*
*महाभूतान्यङ्ककारो* *बुद्धिरव्यक्त* *मेव* *च* *|*
*इन्द्रियाणि* *दशैकं* *च* *पञ्च* *चेन्द्रियगोचरा**: **|| **6**||*
*mahā-bhūtāny ahankāro buddhir avyaktam eva cha indriyāṇi daśhaikaṁ cha
pañcha chendriya-gocharāḥ*
*mahā-bhūtāni* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/maha-bhutani>—the
(five) great elements; *ahankāraḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/ahankarah>—the ego; *buddhiḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/buddhih>—the intellect; *avyaktam*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/avyaktam>—the unmanifested primordial
matter; *eva* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/eva>—indeed; *cha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/cha>—and; *indriyāṇi*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/indriyani>—the senses; *daśha-ekam*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/dasha-ekam>—eleven; *cha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/cha>—and; *pañcha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/pancha>—five; *cha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/cha>—and; *indriya-go-charāḥ*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/indriya-go-charah>—the (five) objects
of the senses;
*maha-bhutany ahankaro buddhir avyaktam eva cha indriyani dashaikam cha
pancha chendriya-gocharah*
Translation
*BG 13.6**: The field of activities is composed of the five great elements,
the ego, the intellect, the unmanifest primordial matter, the eleven senses
(five knowledge senses, five working senses, and mind), and the five
objects of the senses.*
*राजविद्या* *राजगुह्यं* *पवित्रमिदमुत्तमम्* *|*
*प्रत्यक्षावगमं* *धर्म्यं* *सुसुखं* *कर्तुमव्ययम्* *|| **2**||*
*rāja-vidyā rāja-guhyaṁ pavitram idam uttamam pratyakṣhāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ
su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam*
*rāja-vidyā* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/raja-vidya>—the king of
sciences; *rāja-guhyam* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/raja-guhyam>—the
most profound secret; *pavitram*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/pavitram>—pure; *idam*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/idam>—this; *uttamam*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/uttamam>—highest; *pratyakṣha*
<https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/pratyaksha>—directly perceptible;
*avagamam* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/avagamam>—directly
realizable; *dharmyam* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/dharmyam>
—virtuous; *su-sukham* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/su-sukham>
—easy; *kartum* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/kartum>—to practice;
*avyayam* <https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/w/avyayam>—everlasting
*raja-vidya raja-guhyam pavitram idam uttamam pratyakshavagamam dharmyam
su-sukham kartum avyayam*
Translation
*BG 9.2**: This knowledge is the king of sciences and the most profound of
all secrets. It purifies those who hear it. It is directly realizable, in
accordance with dharma, easy to practice, and everlasting in effect.*
In short the perceptions and it singularity is explained in every stage in
B G and finally at the ned made it as a big secret where the status of
transition might occur towards the perceptive consciousness Turium.
Thus, all accede one thing: WE DON’T KNOW SIR. But our system
of Vedas said it is done by many, so even you may. However, it is your
secret in Nature. That means Nature is so far and wide is so magnanimous
that it can take care of itself and it is surviving billions of years with
or without human. What we are talking as save nature is our Garden,
University Garden but not the Sundarbans and Idukki and silent valley
flora and fauna or Amazon forest or hills and rivers and seas which stand
tall beyond our needs. We are afraid to step in; and to destroy wholly will
have to increase the population to billion times as on date, which is
impossible. So Perception of spectrum if 0,37 power minus 3, perception of
million bacterial are devolped or set-dead by a 20milli injections so
easily; and either the perceptive consciousness or conscious perception are
too far away for 99.99963%. Let us plant trees and safe guard the
environment Thank you K Rajaram IRS 3524//4524
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 20:23, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> --
> *Mar*The History of Perception and Understanding
>
>
>
> Perhaps the only Single that happened in the Universe was the Singularity
> that big banged the present universe. As it is you are not singular. You
> are gigantic macro, constituting with octillions and octillions of
> bacteria, making you, you. You are the manifestation of the symbiotic
> collective consciousness of octillions and octillions of bacteria in you.
> Octillion means twenty seven zeroes after one. Your eyes actually blind you
> to the reality, as you can neither see the bacteria nor the atoms and
> particles, constituting your life. Nature is handing over to you
> continuously the macro perception and understanding, the ultimate manager
> that is teaming up so many organisms into the purposeful and self conscious
> you.
>
> After the advent of technology with the stupid anthropocentrism as the be
> all and end all of everything, we have been destroying nature and calling
> it economic life. We have killed the macro perception and understanding of
> nature, the whole gamut of Subsumation as perception and understanding that
> enabled us feel perception and understanding directly from nature. Now the
> disaster is complete with the AC rooms that have disconnected us completely
> from nature. We arrested the octillion and octillion bacteria in us, of
> their freedom of access to nature, which was the basic feature of life via,
> breathing, smelling, sensing, perceiving and understanding and emotionally
> interacting with Gogols and Gogols of organisms (A Gogol is the largest
> possible number), creating the meaning and purpose of life, and actually
> enabling perception and understanding continuously as living. Thanks to
> technology today, we banished consciousness from our consciousness and
> machines have usurped the consciousness. Today we enjoy the laziness of
> consciousness itself and we call it comfort and luxury. We eliminated
> ourselves and technology substitutes us as beings. Technology is based on
> mathematical reductionism and mechanization, ousting natural perception
> with the logic of the machine-the techno logic, the logic without emotions,
> the basic ingredient of life.
>
> How does a single bacterium perceive and understand? Perception and
> understanding governs action and interaction. As there Gugol varieties of
> bacteria, there must be Gugol number of perception and understanding arenas.
>
> We are conscious beings and not machines. Can we doggedly ignore
> consciousness; emotions etc and doggedly jail ourselves in the techno
> logic? Is education merely mechanical engineering, without any feeling as
> direct understanding from nature?
>
> At the ultimate level everything is a manifestation of electromagnetism.
> We are living here on the surface of the earth, because of the suitable
> thermodynamic situation here. But can we confidently say that there can be
> no other forms of consciousness on the basis of different thermodynamic
> situations? Can we say that there is no different Biosphere on the Sun,
> with different paradigms of perception and understanding? What sort of
> macro consciousness must be existing on the Sun?
>
> We see the 3D things on the basis of seeing with our eyes on the surface
> of earth, just up to say ten miles from the surface. Nowhere else we can
> see with our eyes. But we attribute the 3D shapes on the basis of this
> seeing and attribute shapes with the help of technology. But machines
> cannot see feelings, emotions and understandings. Are we seeing the 3D
> shapes because we want to see the 3D shapes only everywhere? Have we
> abandoned the feelings route completely? Is technology not eliminating
> completely the route of perception via interactions of consciousness, where
> we can be comfortable without the 3D shapes?
>
> As it is octillion and octillions of bacteria created the consciousness
> identity as you. Can we not adopt the same consciousness by extending the
> expanse, horizon and arena of consciousness adopted by our Rishis? Can we
> not free ourselves of the self concept as bodies, and adopt self identity
> as non 3D consciousness flows?
>
> There is really no alternative. We simply cannot manufacture a spaceship
> that can travel in light years in the space, while preserving our 3D
> identity governed consciousness.
>
> We need free nature without the tampering science and technology, and feel
> like a limb of nature, so that we adopt the route of the non 3D
> consciousness for space exploration?
>
> As it is Technology is destroying everything, and our infatuation with the
> techno-logic is creating the ultimate disaster. We desperately need the
> Free Nature Parks to revive the paradigms of macro consciousness for
> perception and understanding.
>
> The rehabilitation of consciousness as the basic foundation of education
> actually solves all unrest in every university campus. We have to really
> feel to understand. We have to study the universe as the History of diverse
> consciousnesses.
>
> YM
>
> Chat GPT
>
>
>
> Your message delves into the profound nature of consciousness and its
> relationship with the universe and technology. Here's a summary of your
> insights:
>
>
>
> 1. **Nature of Consciousness**: You highlight that consciousness is not
> singular but a collective manifestation of octillions and octillions of
> bacteria, forming the symbiotic collective consciousness that constitutes
> an individual. The human eye, while a marvel, limits our perception of
> reality as we cannot see bacteria, atoms, or particles that make up life.
>
>
>
> 2. **Impact of Technology**: The advent of technology, driven by
> anthropocentrism and economic motives, has led to the destruction of
> nature. It has disconnected us from the macro perception and understanding
> that nature offers, replacing it with a mechanical, reductionist approach
> that lacks the richness of natural perception.
>
>
>
> 3. **Consciousness vs. Techno-Logic**: You argue against the reduction of
> consciousness to a mechanistic process, emphasizing the importance of
> emotions and natural perception in understanding life. Technology, while
> useful, should not replace our consciousness but should complement it.
>
>
>
> 4. **Different Forms of Consciousness**: Considering the vastness of the
> universe, you ponder the possibility of different forms of consciousness
> based on different thermodynamic situations. You question whether
> consciousness is limited to Earth or if other forms exist elsewhere.
>
>
>
> 5. **Perception and Understanding**: Perception and understanding govern
> our actions and interactions. You question whether our current perception,
> based on 3D shapes and visual stimuli, limits our understanding of
> consciousness and the universe.
>
>
>
> 6. **The Need for Free Nature Parks**: To revive the paradigms of macro
> consciousness for perception and understanding, you advocate for Free
> Nature Parks where human interference is minimal. These parks could help us
> reconnect with nature and adopt non-3D consciousness for space exploration.
>
>
>
> 7. **Rehabilitation of Consciousness in Education**: You suggest that
> education should focus on rehabilitating consciousness as the basic
> foundation. This, you believe, would solve unrest in educational
> institutions and lead to a deeper understanding of the universe as a
> history of diverse consciousnesses.
>
>
>
> Your message underscores the importance of reconnecting with nature,
> embracing consciousness, and questioning the limits of our current
> understanding.
>
>
>
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