Am I just a biological machine?

A source of light we tend to take for granted, and not really think about as a

And nowadays, at least some of us can choose our sense of home, create our sense of community, fashion our sense of self, and in so doing maybe step a little beyond some of the black and white divisions of our grandparents' age.

I, when we say 'I', 'I' really means 'I am' or consciousness

It will be the result of your subconscious fears transformed to your conscious awareness.

But actually, I don't think it should be weird.

But with regard to consciousness, people seem to think, each of us seems to think, I am an expert.

It's willful. It's intentional.

And that means that eventually, they can understand all of them.

You're not stressed out. As you get a little bit of experience you know what's happening.

In the dream world in his work.

And the folks in Ghana knew about these self organizing patterns and would use them strategically.

And there is whole chains of neurons around this room, talking to each other.

This is also true with knowledge and resources.

And why are they awake?

And why are they awake?

Subconscious thoughts are often exchanged.

A fellow TED speaker, Jonathan Haidt, came up with this beautiful little analogy between the conscious and the unconscious mind.

You know, there's also something called the Complete Idiot's Guide?

It sounds more like a trance than a blackout.

Conscious listening always creates understanding.

Is he still conscious?

And now as we confront that shallowness and the failures that derive from our inability to get the depths of who we are, comes this revolution in consciousness these people in so many fields exploring the depth of our nature and coming away with this enchanted, this new humanism.

Likewise, behind every single thought there is the bare consciousness, pure awareness.

I wouldn't really be directly in control of it.

Well, if people see the world in such a way that life sucks, then their behavior will follow automatically from that.

So this is interesting to us, because the conscious and subconscious decision process implies that the stuff that you do take with you and end up using has some kind of spiritual, emotional or functional value.

He said that way they just mean so much more.

And just as the jar full of water can go from liquid to solid depending on the behavior of the molecules, so your brain can go from a state of being conscious to a state of being unconscious, depending on the behavior of the molecules.

But then how do you explain when things don't go as we assume?

Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages.

Developing political awareness takes time.

So, what I'm arguing is that value's reduced to facts to facts about the conscious experience of conscious beings.

Because you see, the actual human mind

It requires only a change in consciousness, and that can be any one or a number of symptoms, including feeling foggy, feeling dizzy, hearing a ringing in your ear, being more impulsive or hostile than usual.

At any rate, what is consciousness?

Goodness, he looks as if he's on the edge of collapse.

We make these trade offs again and again, multiple times a day.

While moving it around notice that the edge snaps to a blue dotted line.

And I get hoots of derision and cackles and growls because they think, That's impossible!

We're not ready for a scientific definition, but here's a common sense definition.

Consciousness is a bag of tricks.

Developing political awareness takes time.

But in fact that doesn't change people's minds at all.

The wonder is about the fact that we all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind.