Abstract
Consciousness and the human mind have been pondered for centuries [1,2]. Today the most fundamental, likely outlines of the explanation of consciousness are known, and from this landscape we are well-positioned to fill in the basket of specific theories that will include the correct one. However, many errors in thinking and assumptions have accumulated, and even gained fashion, that obscure our progress. It is time to eliminate these, which we do herein by enumerating the complementary true assertions. Following that we mention four principles for choosing direction for further work. We conclude with a framework for further progress.
Highlights
Definitions: Feeling: “Subjective experience.” That which makes the Hard Problem [3] hard
Qualia are discovered by the introspection of a mind
When the other something is in the same mind, we have what amounts to one clot of feelings experiencing another clot of feelings. (This can result in bad feelings regenerating further bad feelings mushrooming into a widespread dysphoria.) In practice most such subjective events for us are further elaborated both at the experiencing site and the experienced site with informational content, giving rise to complex emotions as well as feeling-laden observations and introspections
Summary
Citation: Sipfle K (2021) The Primary Pitfalls on the Road to Understanding Consciousness. J Neurol Neurobiol 7(1): dx.doi.org/10.16966/23797150.173 Copyright: © Sipfle K. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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