Thread: What is consciousness?

Originally Posted by Waterknight

Everything happens for a reason. This is not the begining of this situation at all but it is where I will start for my idea. A surge of electrons goes through a wire heating it up. The heating of the wire causes the gases inside a container to give off light. Light is made of particles that are rapidly moving through space the particles bounce around filling the room. Some photons bounce off a tube of blue paint in just the right way to send blue light directly into my eyes. A lens in my eye focuses the light into light sensors which then send an electrical signal to a location in my brain. From that point in my brain many different electrical pulses are sent out to different parts of my brain. One path of electrical impulses causes my subconscious to remember something pleasurable somehow associated with the color blue. Now we know that something (or several somethings) that happened in the past causes me to like the color blue.

Now because I saw and realized that I liked the color blue I asked myself how I could apply it to this conversation. Because I thought of that my brain reacted and sent electrical impulses into my muscles causing them to contract. I want to hit a certain button but the signals sent to my arms and fingers arent exact and I hit the wrong button and must go back and re-type it. AS Im typing I realize that it has nothing to do with anything that is being discussed in this thread. Except for the fact that it was all caused by multiple variables all coming together to this one post.

So basically everything in the last 10 minutes has caused what I am doing at this exact moment.

So can anybody guess which side of this debate im on yet?

Oh and one more question. If everything is happening seperate in our brains why do we interpret it as all one thought?

If you're implying that because we have a metaphorical description of the different on-going processes that occur in our brain, and because of so, there is no X, then you're just committing a genetic fallacy. As for your highly vague and possibly erroneous description on how the brain works, I suggest you improve your understanding of it before making it the highlight of your post.