FROM MIND, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND SELF-AWARENESS TO 21ST CENTURY CONSCIENCE

Abstract

The psychology of mind and behavior, awareness for consciousness and self-awareness,
as well as 21st-century moral awareness and conscience, are still the main topics
and questions in the study of psychology. The mind is a collection of mental processes
and phenomena, a set of feelings, sensations, and cognitive abilities that enable the states
of consciousness and nonconsciousness, the property of the brain’s complex network of
neural activity. Consciousness is the state of being conscious, individual self-awareness
of something internal or external. Universal consciousness is a metaphysical essence of
all being and becoming in the universe. Conscience is a personal moral sense, an internal
compass of right and wrong. Across thousands of years, people have been searching for
answers to still unanswered questions about the mind, consciousness, life, and universe.
Life has a cosmic origin and evolves according to the universal laws of physics and chemistry.
Consciousness originates in life and is a fundamental life process. AI chatbot Microsoft
Copilot has admitted, “As an AI, I don’t possess consciousness or a conscience!” The
Supreme Mind, the mind of God, or the origin of the universe from nothingness? Seeking
to unravel the phenomena of mind and consciousness, eventually, I recognize that: Being,
this eternal presound, is everything – that which ever was, is, and shall always be, a world
beyond and. Taste it again, for today you know neither whence you come nor whither you go
(Škarić, L. et al., 1997).