What is consciousness? What are its prerequisites and its consequences?
What is the relationship between information and consciousness?
How many of our decisions do we really make consciously?
Are our thoughts free?
How easily can we be manipulated?
Do our genes influence our subconscious?
Is there an anatomy of consciousness?
Where are our memories stored?
And what is the role of sea snails in all of this?
How do mind and spirit interact?
And what does quantum physics have to do with it all?
What does hyperventilation have to do with Hollywood?
Or Bicycle Day with depression?
Ecstasy with burnout?

Was wir über Bewusstsein wissen sollten provides a concise but comprehensive look at the current state of knowledge on the subject, while highlighting its complexity. Science has no clear definition of consciousness to offer. There is no single discipline that can account for the intricacies of the phenomenon, and yet the consensus is that consciousness is one of the most important tools of evolution.

This book addresses fundamental issues like the mind-body problem, explains the connection to neurological activity, delves into mental processes, discusses a variety of altered states of consciousness and the methods to attain them, and addresses the role of information.

It pursues the development of awareness of the self and discusses questions of creativity, intelligence, and psychic fragility, collective consciousness and subconscious. The influence of emotions, memories, and intuition is highlighted, as is research about brain-machine interfaces, cellular memory, and cultural memory. Only when these many aspects of the subject are brought together can a vague picture of the whole begin to form.