Can Consciousness be Defined by Neuroscience Someday?
Overview Since brain activity affects conscious experience in humans, neuroscience will help to explain consciousness. It is made up of inner, qualitative, subjective states of perception, emotion, and thought. Unified, high-quality subjectivity is its key characteristic. Conscious states are a result of neurobiological brain processes and manifest in the brain's structure. Neuroscience has provided proof that neurons are essential to consciousness. At both the small and large scales, certain components of our conscious experience are dependent on particular patterns of neuronal activity; in a sense, the connectivity of neurons computes the qualities of our experience. How can we proceed from the knowledge that some particular cell arrangements result in consciousness to the comprehension of why this would be the case? Researchers in the Field of Neuroscience and Consciousness The majority of neuroscience research focuses on nervous system problems, as evidenced by the funding that