Piense en la conciencia como arte creado por el cerebro
- Consciousness (Consciencia) is the state of being aware of your surroundings and being able to process that information. It's made up of four aspects: thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting. - Awareness (Conciencia) is the knowledge and understanding that something is happening or exists. It involves receiving and processing sensory information, and connecting it to memory and emotion. - Consciousness can exist without awareness, but awareness cannot exist without consciousness.
the fundamental nature of consciousness remains a scientific mystery
Consciousness as art is surely a more palatable notion than consciousness as illusion
may indeed be a stage trick by the brain
What if pain is nothing other than your “inner picture” of the neural activity?
Conscious sensations lie at the core of our being
“phenomenal character” of consciousness
how such mere objects can give rise to the eerily different phenomenon of subjective experience seems utterly incomprehensible
How about suggesting that when you see red or taste a lemon, your brain is creating something like a cubist painting—not necessarily a misrepresentation but an artistic re-presentation of the facts
describing consciousness simply as introspective access to mental states
The unity of the self underlies the most obvious function of consciousness
You begin to gain insight into why you think and act the way you do: you can explain yourself to yourself and explain yourself to other people
the evolutionary function of “consciousness as art” is to make you fall in love with the artist—yourself.
Illusionists take the contrary line. If your sensations appear to have these qualities, then your physical brain is playing tricks on you.
I am not proposing an alternative theory to illusionism, but my hope is that shifting the emphasis in a positive direction may in fact make the illusionist theory more scientifically acute and at the same time more humanly agreeable.
The price for this explanation is that it devalues not only the mystery but the majesty of the core experience.
In Pablo Picasso's words, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
