What Is The Biological Basis of Consciousness?

Question

Is Matter another Name For Illusion?

Answer 1

There is no answer to that question.

There are several theories that have a basis but nothing conclusive. There is no chemical analysis that can be shown to be what 'thought' is in the same way as, say, digestion. It is outside the current literature to assert otherwise. Even neurologist don't have a basic and agreed upon model of what exactly consciousness is. [v. 'The Mind: an introduction' by J. Searle]

Answer 2

the matter in the brain is the biological basis for consciousness, coupled with human spirit. Human perception and interpretation of sensory stimuli is the basis for sense of illusion or reality.

Answer 3

The biological basis of consciousness is brain activity.
Something you were apparently lacking when you followed up with "is matter another name for illusion"?.....

Answer 4

Emotional feedback is biological. Awareness is eternal, the emotions help create an ego to trapped set patterns of frequencies measured by the ultra low frequencies the brain communicates on.
Everything is a frequency and can be measured.

Answer 5

The brain. The mind is a process that works on electrochemical reactions. Over the last few million years constant change shaped by natural selection created ever more complicated ways for animals to interact with their environments.

Answer 6

In a general sense, it's the sum total of all the electrical and chemical activity in the brain.