What causes consciousness?

Question

The mind IS what the brain DOES!
How does the brain 'do' consciousness?
Could something artificial 'do' consciousness?

Answer 1

Mind is what the brain does - yes. Just like what legs do is walk.

It may be that our sense of self comes from memories saved in the brain. As we accumulate memories, a sense of "me" as separate from "you" develops. Babies do not have this sense. It comes at about 2 years of age. Artificial "intelligence" can certainly store a lot of information, but it may never learn how to discard what it doesn't need and thus be overwhelmed by too much data.

Along with the memories, consciousness may be a story we have made up about ourselves. That story may have little to do with the story others have made up about us.

Answer 2

A hormone called melantonin causes us to fall asleep at night and re-awake in the morning, this may also cause consciousness.

Answer 3

many neurotransmitters are responsible for the awareness & consciousness like histamine . the binding of histamine to its receptors

Answer 4

that is a beautiful question.i've been thinking about it for days myself. it's one question i don't think a scientific answer could suffice.
conciousness is not just alertness or wakefulness.
it is a combination of our thought process,perception, insight, emotions judgement and decisions which we make second to second.
this cannot be reduced to a series of neural circuits. also the 'conciousness' is of different dimensions in differnt people.

Answer 5

It's an unknown phenomenon when 'spirit meets body' (in the case of humans).

Answer 6

This would be for philosophy beause there is no scientific explanation for that. It's an unknown.