How much of consciousness has been explained?

[Gold Barz]

So to start things off, here are a couple of questions.

So how much of consciousness do you think has been explained?
I think that we know a fair amount about consciousness (thanks to neuroscience) but the question still stands, how subjective experience arise from the physical processes that happen in the brain. Is consciousness an emergent property from those processes (neurons firing, etc)?

Is it possible that consciousness might not be reducible to just the brain?
That it might actually go, without sounding too woo, beyond just the brain meaning that we have got to look at the whole body, the whole package?

 

[arkajad]

Is it possible that consciousness might not be reducible to just the brain?

And why shouldn't it be possible? But then question is what is "brain" for you? Just matter? Or matter plus its functions? Do we know all functions of the brain? I doubt.

 

[Gold Barz]

Well, I don't know much about the topic, that is why I want other peoples informed opinion on it.

 

[Evo]

So to start things off, here are a couple of questions.

So how much of consciousness do you think has been explained?
Consciousness is a product of brain activity, but how and why does it do it?
Is it possible that consciousness might not be reducible to just the brain?

It would really help if you would explain what you mean by each statement.

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In particular, please make a concerted effort to adequately define key terms whose meaning might otherwise be ambiguous and to provide proper justification for any claims that might be contentious. Doing so will go a long way towards stimulating productive discussion, whereas failure to do so will inevitably lead to lots of confusion, wasted words, and effort, and ultimately to moderator intervention as outlined above.

 

[Gold Barz]

Done