Consciousness

Consciousness is a journey of ‘wakefulness’. Man experiences ‘being conscious’, seeks the ultimate meaning of existence, essence, life, death, and beyond. This phenomenon consciously alerts to distinguish or define forms of reality and essence of the matter prior to experience.

Though, the reality is subjective but has ontological significance and scope. Reality has a different meaning for different persons depending on sense-data, knowledge or experience of a particular object. But, reality or properties of matter is objective, yet, difficult to understand at once. Still, there would be new experience or knowledge, despite, having a complete or absolute perception of something. In like manner, if someone has never seen colours, and when s/he sees colours for the first time, most of the properties would be what s/he has an idea already in mind. It becomes so due to ‘consciousness’. It is independent of experiencing matter. The reason is, consciousness is the phenomenal reality of beings, and make us sure with actuality.

Minimal consciousness is sleep; dream; and zero consciousness is death. This could be controlled by anaesthesia, depending on the quantity of anaesthesia given by anaesthesia professor or doctor. Highest forms of consciousness are wakefulness; enlightenment; and greater awareness of self.

The forms of consciousness are subjective, varies with perceptions. Those who deny forms and the manifestation of consciousness uses arguments of Physicalism and materialism. Supporters of Physicalism or materialism denies metaphysical or invisible realities of matter. They argue that there is nothing beyond ‘Physical’ meanings of reality. Though, dualists or metaphysicians supports essence or being of something (matter). They have arguments to challenge materialists through “Mary’s Room argument, knowledge argument and p-zombie argument that there is something invisible exists in out-there, or inside matter. As zombie argument explains zombies could exist. The existence could be metaphysical or invisible to the first-person experience, but, in conscious (metaphysically or existentially) experience zombies could exist. Like, zombie-like man (on taking zombie drug) feels pain in injury but not reacts (painfully) as a normal man.