gnostic
The Lost One
Let’s use and focus on human as example.
The brain interface with just about everything in the human body.
It controlled almost everything, such as motor function, keeping other organs functioning, which also including all sensory functions, eg our senses of smell and touch, our vision and hearing.
The brain interact with all sensory organs and tissues through our nerve endpoints, so that our perception of the world around us, what we can see, hear, feel and smell, are through our nervous systems to the brain, which (the brain) process all the information, so that we are made aware what our perceptive senses interact.
Is that what consciousness is?
Our eyes, ears, nose and our skins sent information to the brain, which process the information, information that we can understand and use to interface within close proximity of human. And a lot of that are stored in our memory, so that we can remember what everything look like, sound like, feel like and smell like, and distinguish one thing from other.
Consciousness make us aware of everything that are part of our bodies, what we do and how we function in the world us.
The brain also sort our memories, process the information that we can use or don’t use. For instance, if you were carpenter, your brain will provide memory of your training, so that you remember how to use tools and machinery, to shape woods in any ways that provide use for yourself or for your customers.
They (the brains) also control how we think, how we communicate what we think, when we need to be analytic, when to be creative or inventive.
And then there is our dreams, are states of our minds when we are sleeping, that show images or sensations that we experienced in the past...but of course not everything we dreamed necessarily what we personally experienced.
For instances, I have seen people on tv, surfing the ways or go skydiving, but I have never done either of them myself. And yet my dreams have me doing something that I have never done before. Even more recently, I dreamed of being chased and hunted by T-rex.
So why would I have dreams that have never happened to me?
All these functions, what we can control, what we can remember, what we think, what we communicate, etc, is our brains being aware, whether it be consciously or unconsciously.
Everything is relational, and that’s including our consciousnesses. And without brains and our sensory functions - I just don’t see how consciousness can exist without them.