Consciousness & Life

[arghreality]

What can we say about consciousness? One of the many great mysteries remaining to us, unfathomably deep, apparently.. we all (those that are reading this) have a form of consciousness, but is it uniform? If it is heterogenous, is it still of a general 'human' character - or is the arc of consciousness one that draws a line across all forms of life

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[renideo]

As ever your passages of reflection are very cool to read.

For myself, I have not considered consciousness since I was much younger, though it was a question that often dominated me, as it was one that directly linked to a deeper sense of the world, and to me, there was a certain, minor, dichotomous war between science and those remaining mysteries that existed in the mind, even though neither the science nor the mysteries were well known to me.

To me, it was a consideration of the union of brain functions into the whole experience of consciousness, the continuum of that awareness over time, even as the brain to which it was subject changed vastly by increments . . It was a sense of identity adrift in a miasma of thought, and thought itself, much as you speak of language, was a kind of floating, shifting sea with consciousness as a vessel crossing that expanse, and tossed about and steered by its tumult.

Truly, words are tools, often we struggle to make them fit in different ways. The manner of it, and the mechanisms that underly it in society are fascinating . . I had a very interesting conversation on this a few days ago I may refer to you later. However, the 'deep' thoughts are often ones we are unaware of . . as we are not often significantly aware during slow wave sleep, though we are during REM.

Arguably, though there is thought without language in our own experience . . there is much thought without consciousness as well . .