Summary Of Thinking About Consciousness

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I would have to agree with Bernard J. Baars findings in his article Thinking About Consciousness. The conscious cannot be observed directly, only through what people explain or say or through activities. We have no access to the unconscious process that is constantly going on in our brain. The cerebellum is a giant clump of neurons, the unconscious pathway in our brain for visual informative flaws used for spatial framing and visually guided reaching of objects. Even in the “waking brain” unconscious practices are active; for example, on auto pilot mode when we shower in the same order each time, washing our face first, then underarms and then our hair. We are not conscious to this however we are awake. “How are we to discover empirical evidence

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