A Scientific and Intellectual Discussion | Consciousness and Existence

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Some believe that the brain, the gray matter that inhabits the skull, and its weight is on average one and a half kilograms, is responsible for knowing the world through the electrochemical processes that take place inside it to manage the vital mechanical works of the organism on the one hand, such as movement, absorption of food, conversion into useful energy, excretion of waste products from eating and drinking... To the last of the works that are indispensable for the continuation of life, and for the production of the awareness necessary to know and interact with the outside world on the other hand.

The brain consists of two lobes: right and left, each with functions that differ from those of the other fissure, whether these functions are mechanical related to the connection of each of them to the organs of the body, or a personality related to the types of skills and the way the organism performs different tasks and the formation of opinion and personality, and if they are complementary in their work together.

In the brain there are a number of neurons close to the number of stars of the galaxy, that is, more than a hundred billion neurons, these cells work together in an integrated way to determine the parameters of the ego that characterize the personality of each of us without this ego having a specific location in the brain, these cells can be likened to a computer (CPU) that does all the computational and intellectual work in addition to the human and emotional work that the computer cannot do.

If we dive deep into the structure of these neurons, we find that like the minutes of other components of matter, they are made up of atoms, and atoms in turn are made up of electrons, hadrons, leptons... At 1% and the rest of this fine structure is nothing more than a vacuum that occupies its atomic structure by 99.9%, the components of the atom in the brain are scattered in the form of waves of energy that we cannot determine their location but can only know the probability of their presence somewhere without the other, according to the Heisenberg principle. Consciousness interacts with the minutes of matter in a miraculous way, being influenced by them and influencing them, in the double-slit experiment we find the overlap of consciousness with the course of the experiment in an indisputable way, where the electron takes the nature of mass when it is observed, while taking the nature of energy waves if it is an omission to observe it.

We usually tend to assume that our perceptions of sights, sounds, shapes and tastes are an accurate depiction of the real world, but if we think about it in light of the aforementioned nature of consciousness we will discover that what we perceive is not the real world as it should have ever been, but rather the best guess of our consciousness about the shape of this world, it is a kind of internal simulation of an external reality different from what we see, however, we trust in our simulation of reality, otherwise it would have been necessary for the evolution of biology. Through the ages that have led us to where we are today in terms of a biological form that leads us to annihilation rather than evolution, for example if the tiger had been represented to us as a palm tree, we would have fallen easy prey between its clutches. True reality may be beyond the reach of our senses, but it is certain that our senses direct us to what fixes our conditions and ensures our survival.

Understanding the reality of reality is an attempt that goes beyond the boundaries of neuroscience and basic physics but you will find researchers scratching their chins in confusion in an attempt to understand how a mass of gray matter weighing a 1.5kg and is the brain, subject only to the laws of ordinary physics can produce consciousness, this particular question is what is called in the philosophy of science the 'difficult problem', and the difficulty comes from a logical intuition that the loss of something does not give it, so how does consciousness result from matter?