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What is science's (neuroscience, neurobiology, cognitive psychology, etc.) current understanding of awareness and attention? What are they; what are their neurobiological substrates; is there a difference, etc.?

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    Divide the brain into two different centers: Conscious and sensory. The sensory brain is wholly connected to reality because it processes all information from our senses. The trigger to activate a sense is a movement whether it be your eyes, nose, hearing, touch or body action. Your conscious brain receives a very small subset of the information your sensory brain processes. If you become disconnected from your sensory brain, i.e.. (less aware of how it feels to move your body as it is designed or less attention to other sensations you may feel) in your conscious brain you may form opinons, beliefs and notions not based on evidence, facts or reality. In disconnect you are less likely to be aware of new information so your consciousness becomes stuck in a swirl of reorganizing and reshaping the same old information to suit your ever narrowing awareness. As we see today, this creates dogma, intransigence and rigidity in function physically, emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. It is easy to continue on a path of self destruction when you are disconnected with how it feels to be alive on this planet within your body.

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Awareness states and attentional states overlap to a large degree. However when approaching those topics an epistemological issue (an issue about what can be known or not) has to be clarified as a first order of business. The way Dave Chalmers puts it; there is an easy and a hard problem. The hard problem concerns trying to study "consciousness" as that which we feel, think and experience, sometimes called qualiae; the flavour of the soup. What is its nature, is it made of something? Do roaches enjoy sex? We have little to say about those questions. The easy problem is called easy because we have a pretty good arsenal of tools to theorize about it and design experiments to enrich our knowledge of it. It is concerned with the nature of the representation and processing of information by the brain and as such draws on largely on cognitive psychology and neurophysiology and their respective methods. At the easy problem solving we are astonishingly successful (within specific domains) and progress is swift. However, attention and awareness aren't as well fleshed out as, say basic sensory processing or motor control; they are more complex phenomena that involve more distributed networks of brain bits (lets be precise). Everything the brain can be said to do can fall within their domain. And on those words i'll pass the torch...

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