Consciousness does not exist in relation to neurons or other physical entities. It is experienced by selfs, which happen to be fictional representations generated by brains. Consciousness is a self-experience of fictional characters.
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Replying to @Plinz
I really think self is not necessary for awareness/experience/consciousness. With psychedelics people can have ego death in which there is no self, and they still experience things.
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Replying to @DeltrusGaming
You are correct. There are states of depersonalization in which the contents of attentional awareness are no longer integrated into a self.
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Replying to @Plinz
So contents of attentional awareness = What we are aware of? I don't think you can define awareness like that. Too self referential. There has to be some reason why we are aware of some brain processing and not other brain processing.
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The difference is in whether the content is integrated into your attentional protocol, so you can remember it as part of your stream of consciousness.
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