Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
Consciousness is a disease.
For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.