When we were children, we did not know right from wrong but as years past, we developed a sense that followed us through our lives which helps us indicate what is good or bad. Our conscious is like that. According to Webster Dictionary, consciousness is the knowledge of sensations and metal operations, or what passes in one's own mind, the act of the mind, which makes known an internal object. To, me conscious is being aware of everything in your surrounding internally and externally. I believe it has to do to with your emotions and that those emotions can affect the way you think of something. However, it also has to do with the by-product of electrochemical activity in the brain. I believe your conscious is support it with both. You need both in order to function properly.On Thursday August 26 in English 155, we went over two sketchers about a same rainy day. The first sketch was more warm and easy to read. This sketch manipulated it your emotions by using words such as whimpering, warm, and bitter yet sweet to describe a rainy day. It used the five senses to convey how a rainy day could be the "perfect day" just by sitting down drinking coffee next to the fireplace. Whereas the second sketch described the raining day so technical that an uneducated person would have a hard time understanding its concept. The second sketch evolutes by using direct complex word such as circuitous routes. These sketches showed me how the same rainy day could convey different emotions which argues consciousness because if it only had to do with electrochemical activity and not your surrounding then it would give you the same feelings or reactions. But since it does not then that proves that it’s not only electrochemical or something else that makes consciousness; but both.
Consciousness is a debatable issue in terms that scientist believe it is only an electrochemical activity in the brain and that there is no other explanation for it. However, I believe that there is something else too; a mother loves its child right in the second that they are born. They would do anything in their will to protect them. The mothers feelings is something you cannot really explain; but scientists believe that you are just going through electrochemical activity, which makes you fond of your baby. But if that is true then what explanation do they have for the mothers who give their child up for adoption or just throws their child away in a trashcan or where ever it maybe? Even though electrochemical might occur in labor there has to be some other explanation for it because adopted mothers have the same fond towards their adoptive child, as the birth mother and they did not receive essence amount of electrochemical because they were not in labor.
Consciousness is complicated and may always be. It’s hard to figure out what it really is but one thing we do know is that is something beyond us. Like in “As sweet by any other name” said knowledge shared with another and knowledge shared with oneself. You may have your own theory about consciousness but who knows if it’s right or wrong. The only thing that matter is what you believe not what other tells you to believe.
