Consciousness | Send Me To Sleep
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So there is this really big conundrum at the heart of the philosophy of mind which is referred to as the hard problem of consciousness or sometimes the mind-body problem and that conundrum is simply this We all have a subjective experience, right? We all feel things, see things, taste things, smell things. And that experience, the experiencing of it, as it were, is intangible. It seems to exist in a place we cannot find. And I'm not just referring to neurons firing in the brain. Of course, we can use modern science to observe conscious experience in its material way, the material effects of it happening. But the true experience, what is referred to as the experiencing of qualia, seems to be immaterial.
It seems to exist outside of what we can observe using the tools of modern science that purely deal with the reality of matter. That is, the atoms and photons and subatomic particles that make up this universe. In between all of those, we do not find consciousness. We do not find a place at which we can point and say, there is the mind, there is experience. as far as we know there is only the subjective, individual, unique experiencing of it and so we have this problem because in one hand we cannot deny that these experiences are real To do this would imply that they did not exist at all, which we know not to be true, as we all individuals experience them every day. Then, on the other hand, we cannot account for consciousness in the material world.
We cannot understand the mechanism of consciousness using anything that we would frequently use in science. And so How do we justify this? How do we understand consciousness to operate as a phenomenon in the universe? And there are a few schools of thought on this. biggest schools of thought being monism and dualism and these go back some time indeed first discussed by the ancient Greek philosophers now monism purports the idea
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