About Consciousness
Some thought about the potential science behind what we call consciousness, or self-awareness. These are just personal thoughts, none of this is fact unless otherwise stated and linked to a prominent science website for citation.
When it comes to the idea on consciousness, and that with A.I. either having it or not, here are some of my own thoughts about it, since it one of those really interesting parts of both science and philosophy. I also read some more recent articles that might actually make my own theory here not even any bit a reality, so first I will explain what science has recently uncovered about this:
Brainwaves
A recent science article I read spoke about brainwaves as being the catalyst to what we perceive as consciousness. As it is an analog signal that potentially carries our conscious thoughts. This theory mentioned in that article does actually sound very compelling. Oddly, there was a post I made in X or Bluesky at one point about humans being analog, as a revolt to A.I. at the time, but also as a nod to the transgender community, as humans aren't binary, we are analog. So, seeing this theory pop up on my feed a year or so later was rather exciting, and I wish I wrote more deeper into this back then in a post, but unfortunately I didn't.
The idea behind this theory is that these various brainwaves travel in varying frequencies depending entirely on our very conscious state. It is a very analog signal, and these brainwaves are what actually seem to trigger our neurons initially in specific parts of the brain, which could imply that the intention of any action we take consciously is entirely guided by these brainwaves sending that pulse through the right neurons, allowing me to type this article here? That's mind blowing!
My old Theory
So, this one is a bit different, but rather than brainwaves guiding our consciousness, it is actually a chemical reaction of sorts. When we refer to certain chemicals in our brains, they are most likely connected to some sort of emotion we experience as a result of these chemicals moving around. The chemicals are in fact what I feel might be where our emotions come from, if we no longer had any of these chemicals flowing around in our brains, how would we even be as humans? We wouldn't have much emotion, and perhaps even our need to do anything would be gone. It's very curious to ponder really.
Perhaps consciousness is actually an interesting mix of all three things in our brain, the neurons themselves, the brainwaves, and all this funky emotional chemicals we have. Perhaps we think too much on a binary level to ever comprehend our own consciousness.