XPost: sci.psychology.theory   
   From: tommi.hoynalanmaa@iki.fi   
      
   Human consciousness is based on the electrical and chemical interaction   
   between neurons and it is material fundamentally. A small set of neurons   
   is not able to create consciousness although it has the reflection   
   property of all matter. Hence the rise of consciousness from the   
   interaction of neurons is one example of transformation of quantity into   
   quality.   
      
   Consciousness is based on reception of sensations, transmitting them to   
   the parts of brain taking care of thinking, memory and other   
   functionality of the brain on lower level than consciousness. Formation   
   of human consciousness on top this lower level functionality of the   
   brain is also transformation of quantity into quality. Here we have two   
   levels in the operation of the brain: the higher level of consciousness   
   and the lower neuropsychological level. Below the neuropsychological   
   level there is the neurophysiological level consisting of physical   
   operation and interaction of the neurons.   
      
   Psychiatry represents occasionally pure mental problems as diseases,   
   i.e. as the same thing as physical diseases, and on the other hand it   
   sometimes claims that mental illnesses are physical diseases of the   
   brain. In the former case psychiatry is wrong because only physical   
   illnesses, i.e. lesions or disturbances of some tissue, are real   
   diseases. In the latter case psychiatry is representing phenomena in the   
   level of consciousness as diseases in the neurophysiological level.   
   Therefore the obvious fact that all thinking derives from the material   
   operation of the human brain does not make mental illnesses real diseases.   
      
   --   
   Tommi Höynälänmaa   
   sähköposti / e-mail: tommi.hoynalanmaa@iki.fi   
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