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information, collect, store, & process data affected by outside forces. He is connected with past & future through history, science & genetics.
According to science mind & body are not separate. Living body has function to get sensation thought, emotion ideas. Mind experience through senses. Which is not separate from body. Brain cells intricately structured alone is responsible for ebb of flow of mental experience. Creative ideas are stream of chemical & electrical events in brain our brain is massive & quite staggering intricate cerebral cortex consists of network of ten billion neuron each one wired upto thousand others giving us thousand billion interconnection & thoughts & ideas are just brain state consciousness is biochemical reaction of neurons & we are biological body.
There are three approaches to define & understand consciousness. 1. Biological regards consciousness as a .by product of neural
activity advances are made by neuro sciences (churchland, Damasio) Transcendental approach regards individuals consciousness as but one stream with larger cosmic flow associated almost entirely
with religious ideation. 3. Phenomenal approach focuses on direct experience itself. 'The
guiding belief here is what we should attempt to describe & understood conscious activity on its own terms.
Consciousness is direct experience, consciousness is awareness of circumstances, events, symbols as we perceive them in the moment it is process of perception, or knowing & more or less structured field within which this process operates. The feel of consciousness belongs only to experiencing individual. A thousand of people exposed to samę. event but no two people will feel the same relationship between themselves & the event. Consciousness is an activity that is not identical with its contents. If you are looking at a cat & I am looking at two catstthis does not mean that I am twice conscious' as you are. Consciousness is. always moving on it does not depend on relationship of the perceived content to external events & circumstances experience is private & report is public. Human understanding, wisdom, intellect, mind may not venture beyond the bounds of limit. No invention is yet made to observe farther side of moon. Birth - Growth - decay - death is natural process. Nature follows set of pattern with assurance sun rises in east sets in west sea-waves follows cycle of nature, living body has consciousness, feeling, thinking, & willing process in varying nature. We are more than our bodies, our thoughts, our past experiences we also have invisible
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