why did my brain create MY consciousness and not someone else's

[wildflowers1996]

I don't understand why my consciousness is tied to THIS particular brain?
I don't know how to word it

 

[KillingPain267]

Because it's connected to your central nervous system

 

[sevennn]

I don't understand why my consciousness is tied to THIS particular brain?
I don't know how to word it

yeah. i thought of this. like why am i aware in this body. idk how to word it either. but i get exactly what you mean. i think I am not a character or a personality but this state of awareness. so why do I have to be aware at all? why isn't this body occupied by someone else?

 

[Lostandlooking]

Because of chance. Pure luck or misfortune who you end up being in this world, with random chances of how a particul consciousness and and a particular brain come together. (As far as I'm concerned) There's a lot of chaos in life. And a lot of why's don't really an answer. That's just my take on this. Is this what you were wondering about?

 

[Jarni]

It's m'y favorite question :) And it makes me think that smth like this could be repeated. Not reincarnation, but this.

 

[DarkRange55]

Your consciousness comes from that particular brain..

 

[pyx]

don't know, seems like a pseudoquestion. your consciousness is an emergent property of your brain, probably. the fact of 'thisness' which arises from qualia and extends to the 'thisness' of your own mind seems like an elaborate, egoistic construction which comes from misrepresentation of how your mind operates (like a black box, but a lot more complicated since the simpler reduction implies one-sided physicalism i.e physical events spur mental events and nothing more)

 

[G50]

I don't understand why my consciousness is tied to THIS particular brain?
I don't know how to word it

If you watch near-death experience videos on YouTube (which are the mental experiences of people who died but were later resuscitated), a recurring theme in these videos is that the consciousness which was attached to a particular person becomes liberated, and then becomes far greater in scope, encompassing the whole of the cosmos. A condition of deep bliss, and feeling of being totally at home, is reported in this state of cosmic consciousness. These people having a NDE report that they did not want to go back to being a person. However, because they were resuscitated, their consciousness lost its cosmic dimension, and was narrowed down again to being the limited consciousness of a particular human being.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I just see consciousness as another ability like sight. Sight is dependent on our eyes and brains. Consciousness relies on the brain.

How come some people are colour blind? Because their eyes or the way the brain interprets what the eyes sees isn't quite working properly. Surely, some of what our particular brains do or don't do well is genetic. Talents tend to run in families often- eg. music, maths, sporting abilities. As do vulnerabilities to mental illnesses it seems. Any illnesses in fact.

On top of that- what you've experienced to date. Say your parents were magically transported to a different country, a different culture and religion and they were either made massively rich or, massively poor before you were born. Wouldn't all those things affect who you are now? Say either the very best or very worst things in your life hadn't happened- wouldn't that affect who you are?

I don't think your brain created who you are randomly. I think it is simply an organ that has a certain amount of genetic potential. Then, it gets nurtured or abused as we grow. It simply observes what's going on around it. Learns to interact with its environment and creates an idea of self as a result.

As to why we are even aware. Who knows? Maybe it was just an evolutionary hike up the ladder. Like an opposing thumb. Why wouldn't it give an animal an advantage over animals to be self aware? It means they can get better at exploiting everything else consciously!

 

[Innereye]

Consciousness is an illusion.

 

[yellowjester]

Your consciousness is the same as anyone else's. Your feeling of being unique isn't special at all. There is nothing to ponder here.