Elusive Consciousness

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari, Surendrasingh Pokharana, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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which one wants to create and communicate. The brain can monitor its own verbal creations and become verbally aware of the meanings created. Verbal awareness allows the brain to monitor its own semantic creations and know its own analysis methods and meanings created for making critical judgments about the appropriateness of the sequences created, using which the brain learns to critically rearrange the sequences of signals and create new and accurate meanings from them.
During the developmental states, each brain learns to be emotionally aroused, and also learns to control the emotional arousal. The brain learns these mainly through social conditioning in the early years of growth, so that a child. learns to control the automatic neurogenesis or initiation of actions and responses. Development of thinking ability allows ability to create semantic relationships for understanding the functioning of the universe. When rational thoughts are created, they help to create new realities and even use them to change the world around us. This also allows the human brain create pure fictional ideas and imaginary world, entities and conditions. Today we enjoy them as science fiction. These are the instances when virtual realities may later become real. Rationality is one thing which we cannot dispense with in such creative efforts. The pattern of neural activation seen in the brain during engaging with realities, is also created when the brain is imagining the same experiential episodes as in remembering past autobiographic episodes. Brian activation in real and virtual engagements with reality resemble each other, induces many to spend their lives in fantasizing rather than encountering reality. Experiencing is indeed the only form of subjective reality verification method, which we all use moment to moment in the real life. However, the knowledge derived from such experiences may be erroneous as the relationships are understood based on the knowledge base available in the brain. For derivation of accurate knowledge, the relationships must be objectively and independently extracted and recreated, which is the basic rule of a scientific paradigm. It is indeed true that more and more people are leaving scientific engagements with reality, as they find engagements with virtual reality are equally fascinating for the brain. Addiction with virtual reality has long historical roots with human beings, which is described as "Maya" in Indian thoughts. It is now increasingly seen among the young, who enjoy engagements with virtual reality that they easily create for themselves. Human beings have always enjoyed living in virtual world and they have created beautiful and torturous empires and forces, and the game of controlling and governing the self and others replaces engagements with reality.
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