“Thoughts images dreams so typical of the mind, equivalents to the body’s instant reactions to whatever dynamic environment.” •Mox
Conscious meaning “know with”. Knowing along with oneself. To know together. Conscience the knowing of other’s feelings akin to your owns. Knowing your own experience of experiencing and multiple chess layers beyond. Mirrors of knowing besides you and your I. In ancient times genious meant twin companion. A trusted other than yourself you could always rely on. A mental guardian. A representative of your unconscious, yes.
Multitudes of recorded instances, people reports in dire adventurous circumstanses, fighting cold, starvation, long walks heading back to civilized areas when people suddenly experience a guiding real companion, real as anything, guiding, talking to them, urging them to safety, without they would have lost to dispare. The nature of consciousness is as if we have a multitude of theaters and characters within. Possible scenes of now then and the future. We juggle with what there is and what might be possible. Experience experience.
One of the beautiful mythological allegoric tales from the bible is the Fall. It tells the symbolic imaginary story of how we humans became conscious. A story that have preoccupied and puzzled christian mind and art through time.Adam and Eve living innocent as animals in moral freedom in then paradise, the persian word for a lushly garden. All is well until a symbolic snake proposes a bite of an apple from a certain tree of knowledge, by God the forbidden tree. A fruit like magic gives one awareness of yourself and makes one able to differ good from evil. Forbidden, it turnes out, if they want to stay forever innocent in animal paradise. Without moral pain. From this knowledge they for the first time see each other as seen from outside. Knowing how the other looks apon you. This turned out to be consciousness.
Consciousness. One of our first mental mirrors after our image in the pond.
One of the beautiful mythological allegoric tales from the bible is the Fall. It tells the symbolic imaginary story of how we humans became conscious. A story that have preoccupied and puzzled christian mind and art through time.
Our consciousness is but a fraction of our total mind. But as possessor of the Grand Veto, the will to say no; and yes if you approve, consciousness can take on an omnipotence hubris ruining the equilibrium concensus of total body and mind.
Consciousness works in close cooperation with our feelings. Without feelings you would’t know that you know.
FUNDAMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Fundamental Consciousness could be seen as the important ability to predict. For that you need sentience, memory and pattern recognition. Awareness of Awareness is the expanded version we humans use. Cellular enteties have that fundamental ability.
Anesthetist Stuart Hameroff and biologist Michael Levin both at the forefront of the research raises questions and points to circumstances that must be taken into concideration on intelligence at lower levels not taken seriously before.
Together with Orch OR and high frequency waves promise a new paradigm perhaps. In line with our intuitional “blurry” soft way of thinking/feeling megamultitasking brain.
We now also must define higher animal consciousness as a defined concept of it’s own. Animals can certainly forsee the future. We now probably have to divide consciousness into three; -cellular, -animal and -human.
Serious speculations on cosmic intelligence or awareness or consciousness or knowledge are now discussed. But here I hedge my bets.
HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
How are we most fundamentally different from the animals? – By Talking.
We have all the traits animals have, but speech catapults us into a space of abstractions symbols story and myth. It enables us tell and highly appreciate stories.
Our mental world is criss-crossed in every dimension and direction by concepts patterns definitions as beautiful endlessly complex tapestry that’s supposed to mimmick our world.
In this context as a crucial tuchstone; has the language ability changed the circut of the brain or did something else before language affect the brain to facilitate language development. What about a child’s ease to sponge up words and language, does it not indicate a preparedness among the network of neurons ready for the task.
WAVES ALL OVER
Electromagnetic radiation permiates throughout and within our brain. Megahertz, Gigahertz, Terahertz, Infralight Electromagnetic waves within our brains. Frequencies only recently subjected to more serious speculative theories about the function of the processes in the brain. We have our inside of electromagnetics as well as outside scull invironment radiation, some we neglect, some we recieve.
Adding the newly fresh Orch OR quantum microtubules theories from Hameroff and Penrose in the making.
It might change.
To be continued and reiterated…