The Existence Of Consciousness, And How Does The Existence Of Consciousness Exist?

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The word consciousness is used in a variety of contexts. The most common use of the word 'consciousness' refers to the physical implication or physical effects when the mind is in the state of consciousness in the most simplest form. However when seen in a rigorous manner, consciousness is hard to explain and even harder to categorize from non consciousness or the state in which the mind is not conscious. However almost all the theories of philosophy are somewhat based on the assumption that the mind is in a conscious state. And hence studying how does the existence of consciousness occur in reality and how can it be predicted becomes an important question.
Study of the state of consciousness of mind has been the center of philosophical questions. …show more content…

Consciousness is not a term which could be well defined by science but a property of mind which can only be felt individually but sometimes observed by a third person. It is a state of mind. The existence of consciousness can be debated through questions such as (a)What is consciousness? (b)How does consciousness exist (in what form)? (c) Why does consciousness exist? What is the purpose of existence of consciousness if it exists? Our aim is not to definitively answer these questions but find ways to debate the existence of consciousness …show more content…

Thus the way in which consciousness exists in a mind is based on the effect of its existence. The effect might be on its surrounding or even non-perceivable effects However given that each aspect of the existence of consciousness requires a first person and a third person perspective and also some nonperceivable aspects, it is difficult to obtain an exact purpose in order to find how the consciousness exists in that subject. One way of looking at it is that when this explainatory gap cannot be bridged by any means, the nonexistence of consciousness can be sustained. However ignoring these unbridgability of explainatory gaps, one can also debate on the possible ways of how consciousness can exist. While the former way of explaining how consciousness exists in the reductive way, the latter is a non reductive way of debating over the same. Non-reductive way includes the concept of intuition or subjective facts rather than the objective facts allowing those facts which are intuitive to human brain but cannot be expressed otherwise physically. Hence the existence of consciousness can be ultimately debated using any of the theories to explain how it can exist considering it exists. If no possible way is found for the consciousness to exist given the situation and the subjective and objective information, the existence of consciousness in that case can be disproved. Hence once again different

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