/sci/ - Science & Math

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> in the sense awareness is the sense of being the "subject" of your body's reactions
>..and I feel the answer is memory
>Memory is literally a combination of factors and influences that more or less determine the "best" course of action, and even stranger, this "best course" can sometimes be self-destructive depending on how delusional the organism (or human) is. no one claimed it was a perfect system
>meaning that no action we have truly is voluntary, so I never really considered the fact that we "know" we have the sensation to be any importance

This is mind-opening. Don't get me wrong I already knew about the fact we're basically a chemical soup, but the idea that our conscious perception is actually caused by a form of time-lag between our memory and senses, and that everything we do is actually involuntary but we experience things as though we have control because of that time-lag is mind blowing