English language of spiritual non-fiction.
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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Of all the phenomena that beguile today's breed of philosopher and neuroscientist consciousness that function presumed to originate in the brain beckons most fervently it is today's holy grail. The subject of innumerable conferences and research studies seeking to better grasp the human mind. Consciousness can reasonably be defined as the subjective nature of one's experience, the composite of the feelings, sensations and related qualities of being you. But what makes up consciousness, feelings, perceptions, sensory input, the traffic of the body. Here's an analogy. If you wanted to understand the United States, would you choose to concentrate on Washington DC? True. That jurisdiction is its capital, the seat of its government and its political nerve center. But is the real us located there no more so than Wichita, Kansas, Saint Petersburg, Florida, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or Bismarck, North Dakota. And perhaps less to fathom the country as a whole. You'd have to travel to a given city or town, stay a while, get the lay of the land, observe and ultimately interact with the inhabitants, knowing the nerve center of the nation would help, but it wouldn't fully explain anything a country is more than its capital. So too a person and his or her consciousness is more than the brain. Nonetheless, the idea that consciousness is a product of or a feature exclusive to the brain is commonly held among leading thinkers today. This is a mistake in presumption. A badly mistaken presumption. I assert considering how little it takes account of our bodily processes and the lavish sensory banquet of which we partake each and every moment. A philosophy that equates the brain with the self literally overlooks common sense that which informs our perceptions as well as what we take for granted. We would do much better to appreciate sentience. The bedrock awareness of being alive, feeling is part and parcel of sentience.