What is consciousness?

What is consciousness?
What is to be conscious!
How much is your life through conscious?
Our unconscious is there now?
These questions busy day yaşanımızda us not much. Environmental awareness and philosophy of science, since the meaning of the word, even when not yet fully clarified, constantly in everyday life is actually quite complex issues to consider.

Consciousness, in short, a creature is awake, aware and can react to stimuli around in a state that can be defined as situations. If people are concerned that in this case a self-awareness (being aware of yourself; self-awareness), we can add status. The people of this state of self-awareness, is a high level of situation awareness. At this level that a person's every action, every reaction has shown, is aware of every word he said.

What fraction of our lives whether we live in a deliberate one? Money they can not give a complete expert on this issue very, very small portion of our experiences and the real meaning of "intentionally" means that we're spending. In fact many things in our everyday life of simple or complex reflexes to manage. A few examples: we have to walk the almost reflex action is an action. A number of our spinal cord nerve cells, producing automated signals, the rhythmic movements of walking or running allows us to do. Similarly, chewing, eye blinking, itching, look left and right as well as many of our movements are often unconsciously controlled reflexes.

Not surprising that in these things because, for example, be calculated separately for each of our steps to happen to us really have a hard life could be turned into living creatures. So, what else have we done unconsciously? Suppose we decide to walk moment. In these moments I wonder how many would prefer to be conscious act of walking? Our behavior or a more complex, for example, we consider a market exchange. When selecting products from shelves, while wandering in the market, to market and out even when we are conscious of how much action do you think? Hang on tight, a normal day, you make 99% of movement and choice of action consists of the unconscious. Every time you juice your relevant departments automatically turns (and / or) you see an ad with the effect-often unintentionally-in fact, you do not need something to cart fills, (and / or) around objects and people involuntarily glances throw your child wants to take an as opposed to something unconscious (or vice versa, will suddenly receive) and / or in boxes at the end of your expectations with your payment automatically do a series of complex movements. Even more interestingly, almost everything outside your area of interest in a way that excludes your personal perceptions, your mind has been edited by a perception in the world, often an "automatic" act like I do.

Not just a supermarket, nearly every moment of our lives with the unconscious motives (motivated by) act. While eating dinner-which is one of the most important biological functions-often do not even care what we eat. Heart of our relationship, even the words spoken, the gestures and movements, often automatic, learned, success is guaranteed to experience again.

This is an important cause, of our nervous system, ie our brain, "expectations" by creating, in that direction is the work. If everything is taking place according to expectations, there is no reason to engage the mind. Experience, contrary to expectations at the time, engaged in a new program, the new alignment is the best possible situation. The main purpose here is always the basic functioning of the body and the internal balance (homeostazis'i) to maintain. Let's say there is a delicious soup in front of you, just been put to eat, but a sharp piece of bone that appears in your mouth slipped in a moment. That moment unconsciously nutritional status, a conscious state reforms by your behavior changes, and the moment you no longer automatic behavior patterns of your inappropriate for a new behavior program to switch on if you will (self-absorption process, instead of bones of the mouth to remove from your example). Smoker can do to have a good awareness of the game, for example: as ignorant of Tiryaki, preferably in an evening, took out a portion of the package of cigarettes in the wrong place the package again. The first reverse the direction taken by senseless buying cigarettes to be placed in the wrong lips burn, the smoker's behavior changes, you can watch with pleasure. The automatic way to get used to the pleasure was interrupted at a time and is quite normal to occur immediately following a disapproval.

The point is that "we live deliberately," that, in fact, is very exaggerated statement. Because the vast majority of our lives unconscious, automatic program and move forward with this "short" end of life, how they came so fast that we, how time passed so quickly that we can not give a definition kind.

Is there a cure? I think there is: So long as our minds in a traditional environment with automated programs that can handle the situation, we in our environment, our world of ideas and innovations are constantly adding unusual we can raise our consciousness. Keep the food we eat, to what we read, we put on behavior patterns in defiance of the ordinary ways we can out of our daily life we can provide a significant increase in our percentage of the conscious life.

Obviously, such a situation, at first, buying the "comfort of mind" in terms of loss of nu will cause a disturbance. But the award really long and "very full" is a life lived.