Question

Subject : Critical Thinking

Need a Summary in 200-300 words.

Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/consciousness-isnt-a-mystery-its-matter.html

Answer 1

In the first paragraph the writer introduces the yopiv that is conciousness as told by every philosopher or intelligent men, is the most mysterious things in our world. In the second paragraph he conveys his own belief about the conciousness which he thinks is not so mysterious, and most familiar thing. He writes conciousness to be any kind of experience, be it touch feel or anything. In the third paragraph he argues that the nature of physical world in things are rather more mysterious which most people are unable to understand. Then he introduced the idea of conciousness having physical form which makes things complicated. The idea he quotes to be first given by Bertrand Russell in his essay" mind and matter". He further adds that through conciousness which we directly experience we percieve it's physical forms and physical world. In the fourth paragraph he agrees with Russell's theory and states that concciconcio is physically and it's the result of physical activities in the body and the brain. He then argues abainsa the theory that we understand only those part of conciousness that we closely experience by saying that having is knowing, we have the conciousness so we know it. Then he further talks about the physical form of conciousness that is the neuroelectrochemicals being studied through fMRI which are very difficult to understand, we do not know how results in our concious experiences. Then he concludes that we think we know but we don't know enough about the nature of physical matter hence consider conciousness to be different from physical matter. He further adds that phusics indeed helps us describe greatly phenomena and build technologies but it doesn't describe inner nature of thing that makes matter to be how it is. Neither does the concept of energy explains it. Physics denies the existence of conciousness. Then he states that irony that science also recognise that our experiences are result of physical activieact in the brain that the physical form of conciousness. Then finally he sums it up by saying that there is a fundamental respect in which the ultimate intrinsic nature of the universe is unknown except as it is conciousness.