Thread: A unique View on Awareness

I only partially agree with you guys, and what you said about dreams is completely true. I think there is a little bit of confusion about what I said. The processes that go on with our unconscious thoughts are vast and so complex that we may never fully grasp how certain associations are made. When you are asleep, you can wake up at any moment and there is obviously so much still going on in with the mind and body. The point that I was trying to express is that this isn't "real" awareness. Real awareness to me only exists through the phenomenon of an actual physical sensation yielded by a process or physical make up of the body. Most things in the universe go through these amazingly complicated processes, why are humans so special? Humans go through thousands of processes, along with every other nonliving thing. The only difference with living things is that there is a certain process or makeup of something that allows us to experience a "physical sensation". EVERY physical sensation is associated with the abstraction of positive or negative. Yes, some may be too bizarre to even understand, but that is the topic of another debate and can very well be easily explained and how it fits into this topic. I may have gotten a little off topic, but what I am trying to say is that nothing deserves to be called awareness without the actual physical sensation. Without the actual physical sensation, all you have is the process, and you don't say that the floor, TV, water, most plants, taco, lamp, or radio waves have awareness. All of these things are made up of something and react to things as well. The only argument that somebody might pose now is that certain processes or physical human make up deserve to be labeled as being aware when you are sleeping (like sensors on the skin, rise in heart rate, etc.) The only thing I have to offer to that is that these things happen when you are awake as well. You can't associate awareness with the processes that occur inside of you or any living thing, it doesn't make sense. Awareness is only awareness when a physical sensation is yielded.