Analytics Essay-Rough Draft

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Identity and Consciousness

What is consciousness? Is it thought or ideas? I am here to explain the reasoning and what consciousness really is. It isn’t just something in your brain. It is very complex and intricate.

An idea is not easily defined. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary has seven different definitions. “A transcendent entity that is a real pattern of which existing things are imperfect representations,” is what I believe is the most accurate definition. An idea comes from the consciousness of the mind. Anything can illicit an idea; a vision, a thought, a noise. An idea starts out like a bucket of words in your mind. Your conscious and sub-conscious collaborate to form slowly filter this bucket to something smaller until it becomes something coherent. Once complete, it forces its way to the front of your consciousness and it feels like it just pops into your head. An idea is unique to each person’s own mind. Therefore, this becomes a part of someone’s identity and makes them who they are.

Consciousness is what makes up your identity. Your identity is not just a face. It is not just a body. It is not just an image that people see. It is not just a name. Identity is so much more than that. It is how people see and react to you. It is what makes you unique. Identity is what you believe in. Religion, football, television are all different ways to think of someone. Stay with me here, you are not just what skin color you are or height or weight you are. You are what you say and do in different situations. You are what your hobbies are. If you like to play football, you are a football player. If you love Star Trek, you are a Trekkie (or whatever they are called). What I am finally getting at is identity is what you do.

Machines may be able to do mindless tasks that humans hate, but humans will always exceed machines. Humans will always have a conscious and this makes us so much more unique than machines. Machines are programmed to come up with a solution. If you were to run a program to see how often a machine chooses between two things, it will be the same 100% of the time. This is because of the programming that causes them not to be able to be unique. A human may choose on while another will choose the other. Consciousness is what makes our decisions. We choose to do something using it. Everyone’s consciousness is different and that is why there are people who would rather steal then buy, read rather than watch television, fight rather than mediate, etc. The ability to feel sensations such as hot and cold is something machines cannot do. Machines can tell if something is hot or cold, but it doesn’t know the feeling. It doesn’t know the feeling of love or heart-break. We are all special because of this ability that machines will never acquire. This isn’t Hollywood were a robot gains emotions and learns to love. This is why machines will never succeed human beings no matter how advanced they can become.

Consciousness is the construction of your mind. It is everything you imagine, think of, do, etc. It is essentially you. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines it as “the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself.” It is not talking about being aware of people around you or that the light just turned yellow. It is being aware of what you believe in. Being aware of your identity. This is an easily disputable subject that will illicit different thoughts from each unique person. This is what consciousness is and identity that goes along with it.

Works Cited:

Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/