Where does our sense of self awareness come from?
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Self awareness is dependent mostly on your frontal lobe, and your sense processing regions.  \n\nNo-one understands qualia, but we do know where it comes from based on brain injuries and defects.
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There is a saying that "Peace begins at home". I believe that to be true.\nWe must begin our search for peace within ourselves.\nWhen we fully understand our own strengths as well as weaknesses,\nthen we can be sensitive to the talents and needs of all others.\nWhen we can be at peace with our own beliefs and not feel threatened by the beliefs of others,\nthen we can begin to understand the spiritual vastness of our soul, and its position in the universe at large.\nWhen we can clearly discern between good and evil within ourselves,\nthen we can look with empathy upon the deeds of others.\nWhen we can see all of the world's people as our own family;\nmothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters,\nthen we can be at peace with our own position.\nThen we can be of assistance in the world.\n\nNow, let's play some footie!!
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Like the crab, you bear a hard protective shell on the outside, which shelters a sensitivity. Outwardly, you give the impression of self-assurance and confidence, but inside you crave security and love. And whether you show it or not, you have an undeniable sensitivity which is especially influenced by kindness, consideration and sympathy. You also fear criticism and ridicule. Often your self-consciousness is your undoing. Despite the fact that you may tend to be shy, you love publicity and glory.
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I think that anyone whose self-esteem is damaged by such a statement probably needs an ego adjustment anyway.\n\nI think it's good for all of us to realize that we are a tiny part of an enormously huge existence.  It doesn't mean that such a tiny part can't still make a big noise.
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Perception is based on experience and education. If you have certain experiences that can be tied to a person's race then the next time you encounter a person of that race, your mind brings up that previous experience. If you are told or educated to think or feel a certain way about a particular race, your mind will do the same thing. Perception is really a survival mechanism. It helps you sort out dangerous situations from safe situations from a distance.
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when we have a lot going on in our physical lives ... our 6th sense so to speak , takes a back seat\nit wont ever go away ... its like riding a bike\nbut we do have this life to lead and so many obstacles to overcome\nonce that is dealt with , then we may aquire our 6th sense more clearly again
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It's a combination of the two actually. We are finite beings but the only perspective we have is consciousness... For us to imagine non-existence is impossible... This is probably the earliest root of how religion came about. Since then people in power have seized upon this basic human need for understanding, dressed it in fancy clothes and paraded it through the masses (with distinct modifications of course) in order to control those in need of such revelations.\n\nWithout science to help us understand the truth about our world, and our universe the only appeal to authority was through the church for a long long time.
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People have different perceptions/realities, based on personal experience (including auditory, sensory, visual) and knowledge. We are greatly limited in our knowledge by perceiving only three dimensions. So, the answer to your question is : ALL THINGS ARE A PERSONAL REALITY .....Unfortunately, too few humans are open-minded enough to realize that their own reality is not a universal truth.
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Everyone has intuitive abilities like animals do. As apes, we were animals and we trusted our intuitions. As we evoluted, we buried this supreme power. But it is inherent in everyone of us. All of us can predict basic, as well as other happenings of the near future. We can all sense danger, can't we? Ever notice the feeling you get when someone stares at you. You instantly know that someone is looking at you. THAT is an example of our miraculous power. If we learn to trust our intuitions and our basic instincts or feelings, we can always emerge as winners or saviours, or even save ourselves from getting hurt or even death. Some people have tapped this valuable resource. That is what makes them different. But the fact remains that all of us has the potential to be 'intuitive'.
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To put the question in an operational way, you should first define what you mean as "self-awareness".\nSuppose tomorrow I give you a machine that I claim is self-aware. How do you plan to decide whether the machine is truly self-aware or is a fake?\nAlan Turing, in his famous paper of 1950 (see reference), proposed a simple test to decide that. The Turing test is still a reference framework for the AI.\n\nIf you accept (as I do) the rationale of the Turing test, your question is now well-posed.\nSaid that, my personal opinion is that there is no specific reason why a machine cannot pass the Turing test. It's only matter of time. Remember, some decades ago, Chess playing was considered the hard frontier of AI. Today you can get free or low-cost programs capable to win over most human Chess Masters.
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hi, \ngo to this link.. its all about 6th sense http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20000701-000034.html
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The final one is feeling that you're entitled to total understanding.  That's represented by asking "why" questions.  When you ask a "why" question about humans and etc., you don't usually get an answer right away.  "Why did she do that?"  "Why did he do that?"  "Why did this happen?"   We busy ourselves considerably with "why" questions.  The only reason we ask a "why" question is that we feel we're entitled to have total understanding--or an "explanation" for everything.   I don't think we'll ever find it out.   We don't have to have a "why". \n\nThere is a little pointer in the brain; and when you ask a "why" question, the little pointer goes from brain cell to brain cell and taps on the door in each one and says, "Why that?"  The cell says, "I don't know."  So it knocks on the next one.  Now you've all had this experience that you've met somebody on the street.  They say "Hello Carl, how are you?"  You haven't the foggiest idea who that character is.   You go off down the street too embarrassed to ask, "Who are you?"  You say to yourself,  "Who was that--where did I know him?"  After a while you put it out of your mind and go on.   About three weeks later, you're brushing your teeth some morning; and all of a sudden it pops in your head that he was so and so, and you met him at a certain place.  You have a great feeling of relief.  Ever had that happen?
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I don't think it does at all.  I think it stems from our environment until the person is able to emerge and begin to think for themselves.
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There are many things that we do that do not require our conscious brain.  Whatever things you are talking about, perhaps the subconscious got started on it before the consciousness got involved.  When cockroaches feel stimulus on their back legs, they begin running before their conscious mind knows why they are running.  It's just like the other poster said, the impulse telling your hand to pull oout of a fire doesn't require your conscious mind to make a decision, it starts the process for you.\n\nIt's an interesting idea that this might have to do with quantum wierdness, but I think experiments woudl reject that.  I encourage you to keep thinking of things like this and hypothesizing.  Eventually you may be teaching us instead of the other way around :-)
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probably in sensations.  We dream what we know.
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Kyle, if you can figure this one out, you best write a very long book about it. Science has been working on this for a long time. Obviously, the cerebral cortex has something to do with it, but not all. Awareness, specificially self-awareness, is a slippery fish. I will not give you Wikipedia links, you probably already have them.\n\nRather, look up Julian Jaynes and his work on the Bicameral Mind. Early work but interesting. He thought that once upon a time the two halves of our brains were not very interconnected, that we received messages from the right half as mystical experiences, shamanic insight. The books he wrote are incredibly hard to read. \n\nI will see what else I can dig up for you. Great question. The work on this is ongoing.
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The Group Mind is in the present and, yes, there is some evidence that all humanity tunes in to itself and thinks/feels alike at times.  The Collective Consciousness is probably a genetic memory phenomenon of all the memory we share from our genetic past experiences.