Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

by Annaka Harris

The delight I experienced came from temporarily silencing a false intuition and glimpsing a deeper truth: being on the earth doesn’t separate us from the rest of the universe; indeed, we are and have always been in outer space.

An organism is conscious if there is something that it is like to be that organism.

Another example of bodily imprisonment is a condition called “anesthesia awareness,” in which a patient given a general anesthetic for a surgical procedure experiences only the paralysis without losing consciousness. People in this condition must live out the nightmare of feeling every aspect of a medical procedure, sometimes as drastic as the removal of an organ,

Bunelul Feghea a retrait asa experienta la operatia de apendicita