What is consciousness?

Where you land on what consciousness fundamentally is.

A self-identification of your stance on one of philosophy and science's deepest open questions — the nature of consciousness. Genuinely unsettled; no answer is proven. (Philosophy of mind)

Groups

• A brain process — Consciousness is what the physical brain does.
• Emergent — It arises from complexity but is more than its parts.
• Fundamental — A basic feature of reality (panpsychism).
• Non-physical / soul — Mind or soul is separate from the body.
• An illusion — The conscious self is a useful illusion.
• A mystery — We don't (yet) understand it.

Related topics

• View on the nature of reality
• Could reality be a simulation?
• How you see time
• Do you believe in a multiverse?
• Do you believe in the paranormal?

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