Community | December 14, 2012 | 6 comments

Tinkin oba ear...HIC

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ThoughtNu

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Join me as I follow this little white rabbit.

What is consciousness ? The word is easy to define , partly because we use it to cover a variety of meanings . One might state an awake person has consciousness , but someone that is sleeping doesn't . Or someone wrapped up in their thoughts may have little consciousness of the world around them . What of the political, social , or ecological consciousness ?

The faculty of consciousness is not limited to human beings . A dog may not be aware of all things we are aware of . It doesn't think or reason as 'we' do and it probably doesn't have the same level of self-awareness but that doesn't mean that a dog does not have thier own inner world of experience .

All animals are not devoid of inner experience , however different their experiences may be , they all share the same faculty of consciousness . The same would apply to lesser forms of life , for I see no reason an ant would also have some level of inner experience .

Where do I draw the line ? People assume that a certain type of brain or nervous system is necessary before consciousness can come into being . A materialist metaparadigmn is a reasonable assumption . If consciousness arises from processes in the material world then those processes need to occur somewhere and the obvious candidate is the nervous system .

Then we get to the heart of the matter , whether considering the human brain with its tens of billions of cells or a nematode worm with a hundred or so neurons ....How can any purely material process ever give rise to consciousness?

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  • remanns
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    • Final answer - - - -( uhm,...for ME )
      PLATO..

      * we all just EMBODY the eternal elements/principles that are,...uhm,...'really' REAL reality,....

      soooo,...the ANT just is a material manifestation of some stuff,.....and MAN is the material manifestation of some stuff,,......and YES, Virginia,....we all have our Angels,....and they ARE out there

      I think of reality, not so much as a PYRAMID-hiearchy, but as a cyclone ; ever changing,....but ever FOCUSED at the center, which is NEVER changing,....and ultimately "NO thing" , even..

      ( the HALO, of the angles, as it were. )

      sorry.

      couldn't help myself.

      What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
      infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
      admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
      a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet,
      to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—
      nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

    • 5 months ago
  • uwitdaface
  • remanns
  • bailey78
  • ThoughtNu
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      ThoughtNu  

    • Some may say that life experiences are not enough but only through education can people truly grow.
      I say to them that they are simply wrong. Education , in it's current form is little more than training a parrot to respond -

      Getting educated?
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      confusion
      -Teachers teach to many facts and not enough connections . They don't show how things work together or the 'big picture'
      class positions

      -based on intelligence
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      indifference
      - Teachers demand student involvement for 50 minutes, then the bell rings . The lesson? No work is worth finishing . Conditioned lesson , why care about anything deeply.
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      emotional dependency
      - Authority decides everything and knows better .From when they are allowed to speak to when they are allowed to use the bathroom .
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      Intellectual dependance
      - Authority decides the lessons and how they are taught. The lesson? We must wait for others to give us meaning .
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      provisional self - esteem
      - Authority evaluates . Lesson? Self worth depends on someone else .
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      one can't hide
      - private time and space do not exist , to expose is encouraged ........' Lesson ? Any 'hidden' agenda is a threat to the norm
      - does it look familiar?

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      What if life's true form ; was simply THOUGHT ?
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      Every animal displays it , man is obsessed with it and it is the only true form of man that may become immortal .

      The electrochemical organism known as the brain communicates solely with electro-chemical factories better know as neurons . Man can identify various patterns of basic communication through Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI scanning). Tests were conducted all through the 90's utilizing MRI's by most reputable universities , including the US military( hands free flying)... Regardless of language , the pattern IN THE BRAIN for 'up', is the same for the south American as for the Cossack .

      Humanity shares the same conscious energy patterns .

      I wonder what would happen if we all thought the same thing , all over the planet? Mysticism isn't needed to see real connections to the rest of humanity .

    • 5 months ago
  • bailey78

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