How does and why can the human interact with consciousness?

Why can the brain then “know” that it was watched? And why can it gain insight from this?

Our sense of a unified self is problematic. Our body is split into 2 half's. Stimulus from the right side of out body goes to the left half of our brain. Stimulus from the left side of our body goes to the right side of our brain. Your dominant hand connects with opposite side of the brain. If you are right handed your verbal center will be in the left half of your brain.

Each hemisphere of our brain acts like a separate self. One hemisphere watches or observes the other hemisphere. It does this through connections between the 2 hemispheres. There are 3 major connections that connect the 2 hemispheres - the anterior commissure, the posterior commissure and the largest the corpus callosum. We used to treat severe cases of epilepsy by severing these connections between the 2 hemispheres. We then found we had 2 'watchers' in our body.

they did an experiment where they restricted the visual input to these commissurotomy patients so that what they saw was only going to the half of the brain that could not speak. So the half of the brain that produced speech was blind and the other half could see but not speak.

They then put a word like 'scratch' on the screen and ask the person what the word was. The person would almost always get it wrong - they would say itch or tickle - and they would swear up and down that was the word on the screen, although everyone else observing the experiment could see the word on the screen was scratch. The observer or watcher in the blind half of the brain saw a different word in that half of the visual cortex than was on the screen.

So there is not really just one watcher but rather several watchers in our brain. And how do these watchers learn and gain insight? That is the a miracle of organic life that all creature, even one's as simple as viruses and bacteria can learn which is a form of insight. More complex creatures like ourselves have a greater capacity to learn and gain insight. This ability is built into the structure of life.

Why does it seem like “pure awareness” is sending information to the thought process?

Because it is sending energy to the though process. It is pure awareness that powers the system. It is pure awareness that gives coherence to each individual atom.

Your 'consciousness' is a single, experientially coherent whole that arises from your complex mammalian brain. Our awareness on the other hand is made up all the individual awareness's which are found in each of the cells of our bodies. Each of our cells is a living creature with awareness. It is energy radiating from the cells in our heart that unites all the separate awareness of our body. It is better to think of the awareness in these cells as musical notes that our heart synchronizes to produce a musical symphony. Our 'self' is more like a musical symphony that is unique and has never been played before.

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