Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
Consciousness is a disease.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
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.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.