The Consciousness Conundrum: End of the Materialist worldview?

For a long time, consciousness has been the subject of neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, cognitive science and other disciplines in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Consciousness is hard to define, and no single definition is apt.

Common sense would describe consciousness as “those states of sentience and awareness that typically begin when we awake from a dreamless sleep and continue until we go to sleep again, or fall into a coma or die or otherwise become ‘unconscious’.

Key Takeaways:

• Fortunately it’s a lot easier to define ‘conundrum’—‘a paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem’—than ‘consciousness’.
• And if you really want to impress your intellectual friends ask them what they think about the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness.
• It might be helpful before we pursue this question to make a further distinction.

“And if you really want to impress your intellectual friends ask them what they think about the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness.”

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~Comments always welcome…

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Reference:

• Medium.com