Philosophers pondering on what is consciousness is like a florist trying to understand mathematical problems, both are not qualified and lack knowledge on the subject.

Only neuroscientist come close to explaining and understanding what is consciousness. And it's not that hard, at all. There are synaptic transmission in the brain passing information by gray matter between brain cells. Sounds and pictures and words acquired by your auditory and visual senses get stores as memory in the brain and get accessed and used. Very, very similar to a computer, just made from organic matter and much more complex in structure.

So, "how can the physical create our experience, our consciousness" is the same question as how can the physical make the earth spin, the grass grow, your heart beat and etc. It's no different than any other problem in explaining the creation of the universe. So far humanity says It's a deterministic result that started by the Big Bang, Allah, Christ, Buddha, "some energy" or whatever. It's a physical function and Alzheimer's plaque buildup in the brain proves it so, as Alzheimer's patients lose consciousness as plaque buildup progressed to clog their brain cells.

Human beings have been proven to not be the only living organism on planet earth that are self-conscious. There are other mammals, who we brutally torture and kill in the trillions per annum, who are self-conscious.


What is "I"? It's the mind. The mind that receives your bodily sensations in the form of vision, pain, sound and etc. and in about 50% of the population also engage in silent self-talk called thinking.

What is the mind? The mind is a process inside the biological machine called brain. It's very easy to prove this by looking at Alzheimer's plaque buildup in the brain which is positively correlated with a reduce in consciousness/mind. No brain cells, no consciousness, no mind.

How exactly the brain produces mind is so far explained by science as synaptic transmission between braincells, identical to a computing processor although science has a lot more to unravel, nevertheless, that's as close as we are to thoroughly explain what is "I" if we are using reason.


If we are not using reason, then we can chalk it to some magical universal, everlasting source of God, soul or whatever.

I am hoping against reason for the latter albeit I know I am most likely to be disappointed when I die.

What is happiness? Synonymous to happiness is joy, cheerful, euphoric, wellbeing and etc. It's a feeling. It's not a state of mind.

Happiness is unrelated to your philosophy. You can be a miserable optimist and a beaming, happy pessimist. It all depends on the chemicals in your brain; Dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin.

Your well-being of a happiness-inducing brain chemistry depends mostly on genetics and on external factors that still have an effect on our neurochemistry since we were apes. One of these external factors are how high your position is on the dominance hierarchy. The higher on this hierarchy you are, the more feel good chemicals your nervous system releases. It's an ancient natural mechanism that most complex living beings have to make winners feel better, live longer and be healthier and makes losers the opposite.

Your brain is a machine, a system. The only difference is it's made of bio-organic matter and not from plastic and metal, like say a computer is. If a computer doesn't have enough electrical supply, then no matter what operational system you put in it, it still won't run.

It's the same with the brain. No matter what thoughts pass through, they have absolutely no effect on your emotional state, thinking otherwise is factually incorrect, although many bookselling moneymakers will try to convince you otherwise.