Human Consciousness: how we observe (Humans)

by David Turell , Friday, August 12, 2016, 19:29 (3023 days ago) @ David Turell

This is the best explanation of how we take in stimuli from an unconscious process in the grain to its emergence in our consciousness:-https://aeon.co/essays/treating-acute-psychosis-with-drugs-can-prolong-the-anguish?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4f324f5408-Daily_Newsletter_11_August_20168_11_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-4f324f5408-68942561-"An answer came out of my mouth that I had never quite thought before, but as I heard the words, they seemed true: ‘It's not as simple a question as we usually think. We usually think that whatever we perceive is what is there. Perception equals reality. But research shows that every perception we have is actually constructed by the unconscious mind, which then instantly hands it to consciousness. What the unconscious mind uses to do this constructing is largely sensory stimulations. We grasp this information with our senses, we process it with our brains unconsciously, and the product enters our consciousness. Because we all share this sensory world, we do very similar unconscious constructing. We can both look at a lamp like this one and see the same lamp, as far as we can ever know. It's easy to say, this lamp is real.'"-Comment: This paragraph comes from a long article on treating psychosis, and is interesting to read. My point is that this still sounds like dualism to me. The brain's unconscious activity is occurring in the material part of the brain and then transfers to whatever creates the immateriality of consciousness. There are two levels. That is dualistic! The author's point is we have to accept what the brain gives us whether psychotic or natural, and fits Romansh's uncomfortableness with the process, but the main point is, to me, this is what we are stuck with, and with the plasticity, our brain is molded by us to fit our needs and therefore is controlled by us to be trustworthy unless psychotic. Obviously we all trust it, or there would have been no human modernization progress. Note I have not explained consciousness, nor does Darwin's evolutionary theory.