From a Christian worldview, consciousness
is the essence of our God-likeness. Our consciousness is who we are – it is the
real us. Our consciousness is our Mind, our Soul, and our Heart. Our
consciousness is what has relationships -- with other people and with God. There
is a spirit within and about our consciousness that horses, dogs, and dolphins
do not have. Without consciousness there can be no free will and without free
will there can be no moral accountability. Our own consciousness
is the most indubitable thing there is. There is nothing we know about more
intimately than our own conscious experience, but there is little that
is harder to explain. Whatever it is, consciousness is at core of what it means
to be human.
It
is in the context of human consciousness that Crick’s Astonishing Hypothesis is all the more astonishing.
“You,
your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of
personal identity and free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast
assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. You are nothing but a
pack of neurons.”
Or as we say here in Blue Ridge, Bah low nee.
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