• Question: What is our conscience?

    Asked by uberlou2 to Claire, Kate, Matt, Rob, Sam on 25 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      A conscience is your idea of what’s right and what’s wrong. Is mostly based on what we are taught is right, but is also based on human behavior as a species. It’s different from consciousness, which is our feeling of awareness. We don’t know why consciousness happens – one idea is that it’s a way for us to process information and learn from it.

    • Photo: Claire Lee

      Claire Lee answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      Conscience is weird, and has sparked a lot of debate too especially amongst religious people and atheists.

      I mean, you know that it is wrong to kill someone – but why? You were probably taught it sometime during growing up, but if you grew up alone on an island would you have the same feeling?

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