Schools of Consciousness

Consciousness can be defined as the set of subjective, immediate, or remote knowledge that each being has about the world and himself and sensory perception of sights, sounds, and smells that are close to us. But our consciousness includes many more perceptions; any person, through introspection, is able to perceive through a lot of bodily sensations such as temperature, touch, different pressure points on your body, release tension, the rhythm of your breathing, or the beating of his own heart, saliva, the texture of his clothes, itching, pain, etc. Besides these different physical perceptions, through an even deeper concentration will become aware of your mental and emotional state, you perceive the constant variety of thoughts and different emotional states they generate from the joy caused by a memory of spontaneous happy moments childhood to sudden sadness at the thought of a tragic event. Brain waves are introduced as a way to understand states of consciousness. The person can achieve an even more abstract perception of time, mortality itself, or the continuity of its consciousness and individuality of your conscious self. This personal perception of inner experience itself is particularly evident in the moments of greatest emotional intensity however is always present to some extent in current and even bored with our lives now. Three main schools explain consciousness: Neuroscientist, Quantum, and Skeptic; this chapter will cover the main schools of consciousness, and will concentrate on the Quantum paradigm that will serve as background for the rest of this book.