Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

One of the more profound concepts I can teach you – and explain why the philosophers are rather silly. Consciousness is tediously simple. Enough available energy (oxygen), enough neurons (costly), and enough environmental demand (for behavioral adaptation), and it’ll emerge. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1569772680034787329

In other words, most philosophers have it completely backward: it’s not that the brain produces illusion of consciousness. Consciousness produces the illusion of an observer: “you” are the illusion.

Once you internalize that your perception of existence will change.

So there is no observer. When you’re conscious you’re ‘running’ and the cumulative effect of miniscule bits of continously recursive memory in a hierarchy create the equivalent of ‘persistence of vision’ allowing detection of and valuation of change.
Boringly simple.

Hopefully thats enough hinting to give you something to work with. Consciousness is an evolution of moving your limbs. The range of perception is just broader distance. Because the range of our perception, valuation, and action is broader.
It’s trivially simple really.

Neurons predict from a series of pulses and are fed if they do. They compete for the correct sorting and representation of fragments. They produce consciousness through competition between groups and layers of neurons. But you cant introspect your arms why brain? Same reason.