Kriya Yoga Masters of Kriya Yoga International
During the International Intensive Kriya Yoga Seminar in 2019, held in Balighai, near Puri in India, Paramahamsa Prajnanananda was asked this question by a seeker wanting to know the difference between consciousness and awareness. Prajnananandaji is the current Guru of an ancient and unbroken lineage of Kriya Yoga masters represented by Kriya Yoga International. The Guru is also humorous and plays with us a bit as he starts to answer. Watch this video to get a darshan of the divine Guru during the seminar and watch him clearly dispel our doubt around these two terms.
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What Is the Difference between Consciousness and Awareness?
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It's becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first.
What I find special about the TNGS is the Darwin series of automata created at the Neurosciences Institute by Dr. Edelman and his colleagues in the 1990's and 2000's. These machines perform in the real world, not in a restricted simulated world, and display convincing physical behavior indicative of higher psychological functions necessary for consciousness, such as perceptual categorization, memory, and learning. They are based on realistic models of the parts of the biological brain that the theory claims subserve these functions. The extended TNGS allows for the emergence of consciousness based only on further evolutionary development of the brain areas responsible for these functions, in a parsimonious way. No other research I've encountered is anywhere near as convincing.
I post because on almost every video and article about the brain and consciousness that I encounter, the attitude seems to be that we still know next to nothing about how the brain and consciousness work; that there's lots of data but no unifying theory. I believe the extended TNGS is that theory. My motivation is to keep that theory in front of the public. And obviously, I consider it the route to a truly conscious machine, primary and higher-order.
My advice to people who want to create a conscious machine is to seriously ground themselves in the extended TNGS and the Darwin automata first, and proceed from there, by applying to Jeff Krichmar's lab at UC Irvine, possibly. Dr. Edelman's roadmap to a conscious machine is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10461
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Consciousness comes from within (consciousness tell you if you have done something wrong or wright)
Awareness is of being aware of things, (like you are aware of things around you)
Awareness functions consciously and unconsciously simultaneously; Awareness is a continuum
Conscious and unconscious are the poles of the continuum.
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