Consciousness
TopicConceptConsciousness
TopicConceptThe capacity for subjective experience and awareness, studied through neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and clinical disorders of waking and perception.
The capacity for subjective experience and awareness, studied through neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and clinical disorders of waking and perception.
Consciousness is the presence of subjective experience: being awake, having perceptions and feelings, and in some definitions being able to reflect on them. Scientific work separates level of consciousness from its contents and from metacognition. Anesthesia, sleep, brain injury, epilepsy, and disorders of consciousness provide ways to study how changes in neural systems alter awareness. Researchers also distinguish a person's report from the underlying experience, since language, memory, and attention affect what can be measured.
Neuroscience has not reached one accepted theory. Global-workspace approaches emphasize information becoming widely available across brain networks; higher-order theories focus on representations of mental states; recurrent-processing models emphasize feedback within sensory systems; integrated information theory proposes a formal relation between consciousness and causal structure. Experiments compare these ideas through neural recording, stimulation, imaging, and behavior, with substantial disagreement about what would decisively distinguish them.
UAP and contact discussions often go further, proposing that consciousness is nonlocal, fundamental to reality, or capable of mediating anomalous perception and interaction. Thinkers such as Donald Hoffman challenge everyday assumptions about perception, while Jeffrey Mishlove explores survival and psi claims. Those positions belong to philosophy, parapsychology, or speculative models unless they yield replicable predictions beyond established neural effects.
The topic matters because witnesses sometimes report altered awareness, telepathy, time distortion, or transformative aftereffects alongside anomalous events. Such reports can be psychologically important without deciding whether consciousness caused or received an external phenomenon. The established science begins with measurable relations between brain, behavior, and experience; claims of Consciousness & Psi form a narrower and more disputed branch.
This singular question of ours is old to me and as old as human consciousness. Hastings doc on Dailymotion or something was a distinct source that really made me realize this fun subject and sci fi isn't actually like anything else. It's a question that is literally the creation of our existence and not actually fictional at all.
[Retweeted] “Some people say they can ride in a UFO with their own consciousness.” Former Japanese lawmaker Yoshiharu Asakawa recounts a local karaoke bar owner’s account of disappearing and finding herself aboard a craft. 👇 https://t.co/CspKaIgQ12
“Some people say they can ride in a UFO with their own consciousness.” Former Japanese lawmaker Yoshiharu Asakawa recounts a local karaoke bar owner’s account of disappearing and finding herself aboard a craft. 👇 https://t.co/CspKaIgQ12
Consciousness Researcher: “You may then encounter them in states of consciousness where your normal consciousness isn’t functioning, like in dreams.” Rupert Sheldrake tells Jesse Michels why he sees parallels between Thomas Aquinas’s descriptions of angels and modern physics. Their discussion moves from how angels supposedly travel to whether dreams could offer encounters with an “imaginal world.” Sheldrake is drawing a comparison between theology and physics, rather than demonstrating that a...
Bigelow: “Servants of the Supreme Consciousness.” Vallée: “Percipients of the Meta-System.” Lazar: “Containers” You get the picture. 👽 https://t.co/YnuZxC6gGi
History may be far kinder to Tom DeLonge than his critics ever were. #Consciousness #UFOLegend https://t.co/SzWjhio07Y
Probed ingest of: The Most Controversial Biologist Alive Breaks Down Telepathy
So what if the people that keep on saying that Consciousness is the Key to the UFO phenomenon are actually right? In this 47 seconds short clip he summarizes his message well: ?si=P7BzDBe5ymFhnatg That comes from a much longer talk of him with UFO Hub that can be found here: Tales of Unity and Oneness that the Government Doesn't Want You to Know | Grant Cameron Grant Cameron recently wrote an interesting book on how peopl...
This was a WILD convo https://t.co/uN0o6TaPLB [Quoted] 🚨BREAKING🚨: Jason Jorjani says the UFO mystery may involve an intelligence manipulating human history through time. He argues that some encounters could be staged with secret technology, while others may involve a nonhuman superintelligence. “Human history is non-linear.” The philosopher and author returns for our third conversation, connecting time travel, consciousness and intelligence operations. His theory is that technological inte...
