The following statements reflect the initiative of consciousness in theoretical innovation, strategizing, and assessing the situation.

Introduction to consciousness:

Consciousness is the human brain’s awareness of internal and external images of the brain. Physiologically, the conscious brain area refers to the conscious brain area (around the prefrontal lobe) that can obtain information from other brain areas. The most important function of the conscious brain area is to identify authenticity, that is, it can identify whether the representation in its own brain area comes from external senses or from imagination or memory. This ability to distinguish authenticity from falsehood is not found in any other brain area.

The initiative of consciousness:

The purposeful and planned nature of conscious activities. When people reflect on objective things, they are always based on certain practical needs, with certain subjective tendencies and requirements, with certain purposes and motivations, and form a blueprint of what they want to achieve in their minds, forming a plan for action. This is a concrete manifestation of the initiative of consciousness, and it is unique to humans.

Subjective creativity of conscious activities. Human consciousness not only reflects the external image of things in the form of feelings, perceptions, representations, etc., but can also actively process perceptual materials using concepts, judgments, reasoning and other forms to reflect the internal connections and regularities of things.

Presuppositions and related famous sayings for the generation of consciousness:

1. Premise:

Consciousness is the product of information processing by the thinking subject. Without thinking subject and thinking activities, consciousness cannot occur. The thinking subject is a substance that can perform active operations on information (such as collection, transmission, storage, extraction, deletion, comparison, screening, discrimination, arrangement, classification, disguise, transformation, integration, expression, etc.).

Thinking subjects include both animals (such as humans) formed by natural evolution, and artificial intelligence products that are gradually developed and improved. Information is the phenomenon and representation of things that can be recognized by the thinking subject, and is the operating object of thinking activities. The consciousness generated by thinking activities is stored, expressed and transmitted in the form of information. The essence of consciousness communication is information communication.

Consciousness often becomes the basis for the thinking subject to carry out the next step of thinking.

2. Related famous quotes:

It is not people’s consciousness that determines people’s existence. On the contrary, it is people’s social existence that determines people’s consciousness. ——Marx

Robots can surpass humans in terms of work intensity, computing speed and memory function, but they cannot surpass humans in terms of consciousness and reasoning.

——Zhou Haizhong