Consciousness
Consciousness is the end game that originates from self reflection, and consequently, self awareness, and finally leads to consciousness.
Relevant Literature
Consciousness has been a subject of study by cognitive scientists, such as Carl Jung. His work can be found in the following links:
Observation: Doing Science and decisions unconsciously?
In a recorded public lecture by physicist Murray Gellmann, he stated that scientists are prohibited to talk about consciousness. It became an important research topic for him during his later years. It is funny to think that if scientists have been barred from studying consciousness, then, what are we really doing in science? Doing science and engineering unconsciously?
The paper on Stepping Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm in Biology[1], provides some modeling techniques to encode this kind of phenomenon.
Other quotes and references
References
- ↑ Plamen L. Simeonov; Edwin H. Brezina; Ron Cottam; Andreé C. Ehresmann; Arran Gare; Ted Goranson; Jaime Gomez-Ramirez; Brian D. Josephson; Bruno Marchal; Koichiro Matsuno; Robert S. Root-Bernstein; Otto E. Rössler; Stanley N. Salthe; Marcin Schroeder; Bill Seaman; Pridi Siregar; Leslie S. Smith, eds. (December 9, 2011). "Stepping Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm in Biology" (PDF). local page: INBIOSA.