by MasterPpv
Question by ?: What is consciousness according to Physics?
Does consciousness is the natural and energy.What the difference between matter and consciousness?
Consciousness vs atom?
If consciousness is byproduct of matter then can you change consciousness again into matter??
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Answer by Raatz
Physics doesn’t study conciousness and has no definition of it. But yes, it’s material, as is everything in the universe.
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I think, May be, It is Basically Mixed with the Physics and the Computer Science, As the Neurons , Programming, Storing in the Brain, as the Signals,as Inbox in the Computer, and Show to US, When ever, It Likes, As the Thoughts, Same as the Some,Advertisements Blinks on the Screen, Without Our Knowledge.
I do not endorse these links because I have not read them, and I have a metaphysical distrust of quantum physics, considering some of the inane arguments they have proposed of late.
Quantum tunneling http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/The-Physics-of-Consciousness-378.html
Behavior of material brain http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/
“Penrose believes that such deterministic yet non-algorithmic processes may come in play in the quantum mechanical wave function reduction, and may be harnessed by the brain.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose#Physics_and_consciousness
Physics has yet to identify the source of consciousness. A metaphysically consciousness is this: (I do endorse this one):
“On the lower levels of awareness, a complex neurological process is required to enable man to experience a sensation and to integrate sensations into percepts; that process is automatic and non-volitional: man is aware of its results, but not of the process itself. On the higher, conceptual level, the process is psychological, conscious and volitional. In either case, awareness is achieved and maintained by continuous action.” http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/consciousness.html
It is that “volitionally continuous action” that physics has yet to identify.
Maybe there is no real “Consciousness”???
Well, as Raatz says, physics does not really address such a question. You’d have to look to neuroscience.
However, it’s a difficult question. Even heavyweight philosophers can’t even agree on the terms to be used, or definitions of them.. Look up “qualia”. Look up the wiki article and check out that there are rather bitter debates over the definition of this word.
You can describe consciousness as an “emergent system” of the electrochemical activity of the brain. Arises from an extremely complex system.
But that doesn’t really say much.
Or, you can simplify it even more…. A neuroscientist on NPR said recently, “Consciousness is what brains do.”
Very briefly, nerves were originally developed for the coordination of movement in animals, but, once developed, their ability to store impressions–which is what we refer to as ‘memory’–gave rise to the potential to develop understanding of cause and effect. If you can remember past events, you can compare them with current events and identify regularly occurring experiences. This knowledge of, or insight into, what has commonly occurred in the past enables you to predict what is likely to happen in the future and to adjust your behaviour accordingly. Once insights into the nature of change are put into effect, the self-modified behaviour starts to provide feedback, refining the insights further. Predictions are compared with outcomes and so on. Much developed, and such refinement occurred in the human brain, nerves can sufficiently associate information to reason how experiences are related, learn to understand and become CONSCIOUS of, or aware of, or intelligent about, the relationship between events that occur through time. Thus consciousness means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding. (From biologist Jeremy Griffith’s book: The Book of Real Answers to Everything! (2012))
I would say that it is an ability that the brain has to free itself of subjective reality. Understanding the nature of subjective reality and the effect it has on the brain, there is a need for the brain to have a level of activity that takes into account ambiguous reality such as the one encountered when in the presence of other brains who can and will create situations for themselves sometimes to the objection of the other brains who have to have at their disposal a system that adequately coordinates with reality as it is at the moment also. There is a need for the brain to have a level of activity such as this. If it weren’t for this activity the brain would not be able to understand reality as it changes from moment to moment and that excites the instincts to solve the pressure. We call this level “consciousness”. It is an instinctual activity to help survive in the here and now. Without which the brain would have no way to understand reality and thus would not be able to coordinate with it.