A Glorious Piece of Meat: An Overture on Consciousness

Often time scientific phenomena is explained by rather simple things. I think that we as people tend to make more of things then they really are, we exaggerate on several aspects of life and we have done to across the ages. For example tall tales and fables used to teach lesson, where they might have one had some truth now has not truth.

Science now is taking part in this. The organization and the functions of the body where once thought to be magical, something unexplainable except by the intervention and invention of God. But now we know that we are made up of chemical and biological process, so why would our brain and consciousness be any different. Again we are looking for some mystical answer to why we have a conscious. We need to look at the simplest and realize that it is most likely the truth.

This is the basic idea of "A Glorious Piece of Meat: An Overture on Consciousness". That our consciousness is created by the same things that create all other action in our body, neurons. And I do believe that neurons came before consciousness, something had to create consciousness. And the question posed of "why is it that when someone clubs you with a bat, your awareness ceases", to me can be answered because neurons are still connecting regardless of awareness, we know this because all action, voluntary or involuntary must go through the brain to occur, by the transportation of neurons. Our lungs still breath, our heart pumps and our digestive system still digests, the lack of consciousness when hit on the head is due to damage done caused by the hit to the head or neurons. Awareness or consciousness is a product of neuron connections.