(J.1) Consciousness must always
be congruent with the perception in the brain of
the presence of physical things in the environment.
Indeed, without things to sense, consciousness cannot
present in the mind at all. And take away the things or the
sensing of things and the mind has nothing to be conscious of, leaving
only the possibility of a memory of them from time past.
(J.2) We experience this congruence continuously in our waking
hours. For example, we take the action to place our hand on
a table top and your brain takes in sensory data from
the eyes and hand to create awareness of them in the brain ,
compares them to other data stored in memory in
the brain as knowledge and creates consciousness of
the presence of a table with you hand on it. Shut your eyes and remove your
hand from the table and you loose consciousness of the table
because consciousness can only exist with the perception
of the presence of physical things and their action.
As such, consciousness is likewise congruent with
awareness and awareness is congruent with material presence,
but awareness is not
always congruent with consciousness.
(J.3) Consciousness, requiring the presence of
physical things or actions, depends upon the laws of nature for
its creation in the mind. For example, your hand never
actually touches the table but rather the repulsive force of the separate
electric fields in hand and table creates the sensation of the
presence of the hand and table resulting from the forces produced by the action
of the arm placing the hand on the table as sensed
by the neurons in the hand which function as
tactile sensors.
This repulsive force is transferred form the surface of the hand through the
skin to neural cells below skin which, obeying the laws of physics product
an electrochemical signal that travels along a chain of axons between neural
cells in hand and brain to pass the sensory data directly to
the brain. Upon arriving at the brain, this electrochemical data is
directed to another groups of neuron in the brain which are interconnected in
such a way to evaluate the data and either map it to brain memory for
recall or put it to immediate use in the neural processes of the brain. It
is during this electrochemical process that awareness arises.
(J.4) The physical brain has no sensory receptors and, as
such, can have no awareness and no consciousness of
itself. Indeed, the brain itself is not sensitive to the emotion of
pain, because it lacks pain receptors. So it is that the source of the consciousness of
headaches arises from pain receptors in head but outside the brain.
Like all other sensations, the sensation of pain
from a "head ache" arises from sensory data acquired outside
the brain itself. That is, the material brain
itself exhibits no congruency with any of the mental processes it
performs. Indeed, any damage to the brain as a result of
injury or disease is congruent only with malfunctions of the
mental processes the brain performs. Indeed,
malfunction of the brain due to Alzheimer's disease
or brain tumors are typically not accompanied by any sensations or
awareness arising from their causes.
(J.5) The mechanisms used by the brain to
give rise to the sensation of consciousness from
awareness remains largely unknown. Because brain and
consciousness are so closely linked, perhaps consciousness may
be a form of a self awareness of the physical brain of
itself as awareness of the its awareness of the material
world but we have no evidence to substantiate this speculation.
(J) Congruence of subjective conscious with subjective awareness and of subjective awareness and subjective sensation exists without any congruence with the material brain or material world outside the brain. Rather it is the mental process of physical brain give rise this congruency of subjective experience.