What Is the Point of Consciousness?

Chris frit: consciousness is something which allows us to connect with other people, not something that keeps us apart from them. What you learn from your parents and from your peers about what is the right way behave is actually filtering down and affecting the way your brain works. So it critically depends on this two-way traffic in our brains. In a sense, it's overturned that metaphor ofth the mind is a prison. It's actually the thing that gets us out of prison. Yes.