What do you think conscience is?

[mag1caljeet]

We have that little thing in our minds telling us what we are doing is right or wrong. What is it? Is it our intuition? Is it God? What do you think?

I often reflect on it but I haven't come up with anything.

 

[Beyond Everything]

There isn't one answer

• A part of our primate evolution (at least for non-psychopaths)
• Social conditioning (and the limits of this is obvious)
• A tool egregores and hostile beings can exploit to control you (there's where your 'god' comes in)

 

[Robert Ramsay]

It's the right half of your brain trying to tell the left half of your brain to STFU.

 

[ragingmagus]

There isn't one answer

• A part of our primate evolution (at least for non-psychopaths)
• Social conditioning (and the limits of this is obvious)
• A tool egregores and hostile beings can exploit to control you (there's where your 'god' comes in)

I think this covers it.... Perhaps sometimes intuition/the higher self can give guidance that might fall under the umbrella also

 

[Morell]

We have that little thing in our minds telling us what we are doing is right or wrong. What is it? Is it our intuition? Is it God? What do you think?

I often reflect on it but I haven't come up with anything.

Intuition is unconscious recognition of known patterns.

Conscience is very similar, it is unconscious recognition of known consequences and internal evaluation of the intended or done actions.

 

[Ohana]

To me its grief.

 

[misterqar]

Consciousness is just an alternative and more pretentious word for "mind". All animals have minds. Anything you find in human consciousness already exists in the animal kingdom in one way or another, just slightly less developed: language, memory, awareness, etc.