Theory of Dual Consciousnesses: Cosmic Conscious ness versus Brain-based Consciousness (Redefining Consciousness)-2025

Abstract This research attempts to redefine the word Consciousness used by scientists especially neuroscientists, and physicists to describe human thoughts and human awareness in all scientific discourse, science communication, and scientific journals. But the term Consciousness used to be called mind, the human mind by philosophers (remember Plato’s categorization of the modes of thought as the Tripartite States of Man, Descartes’ body/mind problem? Hume’s philosophy of mind? And pioneer psychologist Freud’s three faculties of mind?) This means between the scientists and philosophers and everyone else in-between, we are dealing with two supposedly different but synonymous words in describing human awareness. So, what is the difference between Consciousness and Mind? The difference is that consciousness is made out to be a scientific word that commands clarity while mind has been downgraded as confused and outmoded word. However, scientists are as confused about the definition and scope of consciousness as the philosophers were confused about mind (listen to scientists explain consciousness in the Closer to Truth series). Neuroscientists and physicists limit the definition and scope of consciousness to the brain only – begging the question; are plants conscious entities? Plants (that have no brains) breathe in carbon and release oxygen, they feed, they grow, reproduce, and die of old age or are killed by other means like human beings. More importantly, there is ample experimental evidence that plants learn to adapt to their environment. Plants show the urge to survive and pass on their genes for the perpetuation of their species (through crosspollination) just like animals and human beings perpetuate their species and genes through heterosexual sex, which proves that plants must necessarily have consciousness. Hence, there is a double confusion about the two words consciousness and mind that neither science nor philosophy has demonstrated any clear idea or understanding of what mind is, or what consciousness is. This is what prompted this Paper to redefine consciousness in an attempt to bring some clarity to the definition and scope of the new “scientific term” consciousness to the world. Next, here are three theories of consciousness to consider: 1) The theory of the brain-derived consciousness described by neuroscientists and accepted by the scientific community as the complete consciousness of a person. 2): The Penrose/Hameroff Quantum Computation Microtubule Consciousness Orch-OR theory of consciousness and 3): The dual-consciousness theory revealed by this research.