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Are you of the impression you are on a forum populated by neurobiologists? May I point out that your preference to just say "No one can explain it!" is useless in any discussion.

At least the scientific approaches provided so far provide a common understanding that all can observe objectively. Yours appears to be a wish-list for transcendence and not even an attempt to explain what is seen.
So another Christian Nation SCOTUS Rehnquist Fourth Reich July “one nation under God with equal justice under law” Christmas as a jolly fat Santa Claus coming down a chimney & that human reproduction medical pseudoscience “man is God” suicidal super ego sociopsychopathogical homicidal human farming not so master race not so master plan genocide pogrom……
 
Huh? You CONSTANTLY tell me you don't like reading too much stuff. When I post a detailed post you tell me "too many words".

I honestly thought you didn't like reading much.
Angry on Christmas day?


Why scientists haven’t cracked consciousness​

The science of consciousness still has no theory. We still can’t say how or why the experience of consciousness arises.

In 1998, at the conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), the neuroscientist Christof Koch made a bet with the philosopher David Chalmers: by 2023, science would be able to explain how the brain’s tangle of neurons gives rise to the phenomenon we call consciousness. The winner would get a case of wine.

Koch was a professor of cognitive biology who helped pioneer the mechanistic study of the “neural correlates of consciousness,” which maps the relationship between brain activity and subjective experiences. He believed that consciousness was fundamentally measurable and that it was only a matter of time before science identified how it arose in the brain.

At the 26th ASSC conference this past weekend, 25 years after the initial wager, the results were declared: Koch lost. Despite years of scientific effort — a time during which the science of consciousness shifted from the fringe to a mainstream, reputable, even exciting area of study — we still can’t say how or why the experience of consciousness arises.


 

What Neuroscientists Think, and Don’t Think, About Consciousness​

Scientific American

"The tacitly implied mechanism of consciousness in neuroscience approaches is that it somehow just happens. This reliance on a “magical emergence” of consciousness does not address the “objectively unreasonable” proposition that elements that have no attributes or properties that can be said to relate to consciousness somehow aggregate to produce it."

The approach the majority of neuroscientists take to the question of how consciousness is generated, it is probably fair to say, is to ignore it. Although there are active research programs looking at correlates of consciousness, and explorations of informational properties of what might be relevant neural ensembles, the tacitly implied mechanism of consciousness in these approaches is that it somehow just happens. This reliance on a “magical emergence” of consciousness does not address the “objectively unreasonable” proposition that elements that have no attributes or properties that can be said to relate to consciousness somehow aggregate to produce it. Neuroscience has furnished evidence that neurons are fundamental to consciousness; at the fine and gross scale, aspects of our conscious experience depend on specific patterns of neural activity – in some way, the connectivity of neurons computes the features of our experience. So how do we get from knowing that some specific configurations of cells produce consciousness to understanding why this would be the case?

 
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