u/CHOCOLATEDROP06

Consciousness and the brain are clearly separate but work perfectly together. Consciousness isn't the brain itself, and there's no mechanism for it. If you say the brain is consciousness, that means it's the source, not the mechanism. Consciousness is a subjective experience; you can't see it in a lab or experience mine, just like I can't experience yours. It's based on firsthand subjective experience, not just the brain. I see that a lot of people make up answers for the mechanism of consciousness. We don't know the mechanism of consciousness. That's why the whole concept of the problem of consciousness is proposed by actual people who study these things, like neuroscientists, not by people outside of these fields, because even they know there is such a thing as a problem with consciousness, in that we know this cannot be some physical thing. We cannot see consciousness itself. We can only see what correlates with consciousness, which would be the brain because consciousness and the brain work so perfectly together.

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