I think that consciousness depends on a) neurons, b) complexity of neuronal

physiology, and c) density of neurons, and I think that the true nature of consciousness lies

in the field (maybe EM? Idk) formed by the interaction of the unmyelinated neurons that

may actually allow for propagation of voltage without insulation. This should answer the

questions. There are more interesting questions however, such as why I think this is the

case, and what exactly consciousness is. The answers to these influence each other, and I

would be glad if you would read my thoughts about this whole thing.

- Consciousness via neuron

- But some neuron =/= conscious

- What is conscious? What similarity? (neuronal terms)

- Hence, what exactly is consciousness? (Physically)

- What is the function of consciousness?

- Case study: decision making: consc or no?

- Case study: Learning: consc or no?

- Since no, why consc?

- What could trigger consc

- Closing thoughts

First, consciousness is facilitated solely by neurons. There have been various studies

on this, so not much needs to be said here, except that even though there is still no

certainty, there is a extremely good chance that it is true. As such, consciousness and

neurons are equivalent, and neuronal activity change is the same as a change in conscious

experience.
 There is then a need to explain why only certain mental functions can be

experienced. I am not that clear regarding this, but it seems that if all neurons were able to

generate conscious experience, we should then also be able to have experiences of motion

not facilitated through proprioception, or experiences of subconscious cognition not

facilitated through traditional thoughts made up of visuospatial or auditory experiences.

Blindsight and other cases where a lack of conscious experience can still lead to brain

function also show that not all aspects of neuronal activity equate to consciousness. Why

then, is this the case? And why do only some neurons seem to facilitate conscious

experience?

To answer this, we need to properly categorize both our conscious experiences and

neurons. I will begin by attempting to classify conscious experiences. One generality, is that

all of our conscious experiences seem to originate from our senses, and that all conscious

experiences can be broken down into 3 bases of external sensory perceptions, internal

sensory perceptions, and indirect sensory perceptions.

External sensory perceptions refer to the experiences obtained through sensory

nerves interacting with physical things originating from outside the body. These include

sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste perceptions, and are what people most often

immediately think of when discussing consciousness. They provide information regarding

the external world.

Internal sensory perceptions refer to the experiences obtained through sensory

nerves that interact with physical things originating from within the body. For example,

muscle tightness, our of breathiness, heart pounding sensations, balance senses. It is hard to

properly quantify these due to there being many different types, but in general they provide

information regarding internal states. All aspects of affect are also likely to simply be merely
internal sensory perceptions, with many studies showing an inability to distinguish affect

from physiological reactions, but there is still debate regarding this (likely due to those who

think feelings are sacred).

Finally, indirect sensory perceptions are the shadows of the previous two. Such

experiences seem to be generated from memories. I refer to them as shadows, as

experiences generated from these are usually less intense than those directly from

sensation. Thoughts, for example, are simply the recollection and recombination of

visuospatial and/or auditory memories that we obtain from external sensory perception.

Our experiences of thoughts can rarely match the direct sensation of the same information

however, except in rare cases (PTSD supposedly). Imagination of other senses also relies on

indirect sensory perceptions generated through memory.

As such, it seems that all of our conscious experiences rely on some form of initial

sensory nerve that captures and translated various physical information into mental

information. In other words, if we cannot sense it, we cannot experience it consciously as

well. Neuronal activity associated with processing rather than direct information gathering,

then seems to lack conscious experience.

To confirm this, a thorough investigation into learning would be beneficial. Learning

is simply the process of obtaining new memories, and can occur ei

These different types of experiences never exist in a vacuum. What I mean by this is

that any individual experience of specific senses we have (i.e. seeing an apple, hearing a

bird) is never isolated form the barrage of other experiences that occur at each point of

time. Consciousness should only be studied in states, where we try to consider all the
sensory experiences that are detected. This is because all experiences fully relies on the

stimuli triggering the experience.