[blyat]

Are we really conscious in everything we do?
Sometimes I do something, and when I realize I've done it, I kind of freak out, because consciousness is so strange haha.
I mean, why do we do the things that we do?
Does the realization of consciousness come after the action?

[WastingAsparagus]

Originally Posted by blyat

Are we really conscious in everything we do?
Sometimes I do something, and when I realize I've done it, I kind of freak out, because consciousness is so strange haha.
I mean, why do we do the things that we do?
Does the realization of consciousness come after the action?

Yes, I agree, consciousness is a strange thing.

Sometimes I like to think of it as a lantern or light that we shine on what we wish to shine it on.

Sometimes I think of it as just general, pure awareness.


I think it can be both, to some extent.

[mote.of.soul]

Hmm.

Maybe it's the level of the persons 'self awareness' that determines how conscious a person seems to be to oneself. If someone doesn't fully recognize that they've performed a certain action until afterwards [as you described] then it seems to be a matter of self awareness and not consciousness playing the main part. If you didn't have consciousness then you'd be un-conscious or perhaps oblivious, non-aware, and so unable to perform the action in the first place[?]

It's an interesting question and in fact the question of consciousness and how it comes about is still a mystery to science. They haven't explained it.