Week 6- Assigned Reading- The Problem of Consciousness

By "consciousness" I simply mean those subjective states of sentience or awareness that begin when one awakes in the morning from a dreamless sleep and continue throughout the day until one goes to sleep at night or falls into a coma, or dies, or otherwise becomes, as one would say, "unconscious". This definition comes straight from the article because there definition explains it all. Being or being able to be consciousness is quite important. This is the ability to be an individual is what makes us unique otherwise we would all be the same and we would think the same but it is our dreams that allow us to set goals that we hope to achieve or give us our purpose to life.

The relationship between consciousness and the brain is that conscious states are caused by lower level neurobiological processes in the brain and allow the brain to function at a higher level. Consciousness commits us to a dualism of "physical" things and "mental" things. This in relationship is what allows us to be able to think the way that we think as humans.

Here's were we believe that there is problems with Consciousness.The characteristic mistake in the study of consciousness is to ignore its essential subjectivity and to try to treat it as if it were an objective third person phenomenon. What this means is that we allow to many third parties to examine the way that we think or the way that we see things. We allow people to interferr in our lives which end up slowing us down as individuals. Our mind and our thoughts that come
from our minds are something that no one is able to take away. This is something that we will always have which make us free us people.