Batteries or Electricity
Is every piece of consciousness . . . well I just said "piece of consciousness" and not "consciousness" so I must think we're all part of one big thing. Electricity that can splinter and join and not individual batteries forever fixed.
My brain is not consciousness. It's a computer (as in something that computes). My consciousness is the energy coming through when someone hit the "on" switch. it's like electricity. It's the power.
Consciousness = Power
Brain = Computer
Body = monitor, mouse and all that shit that happens on screen because the computer makes it happen
The monitor, keyboard, mouse, internet, etc., work because they're attached to a compatible computer[], but with no electricity the whole thing's dead. Computers come of a certain make and model; they come with programs already inside them. Microsoft word was already programmed inside our computer and we see it on the screen because of that. But the electricity that powers it is not programmed to do anything. it's harvested[is that the right word? probably not]. Similarly, my lisp was already programmed into my brain, and I have a body compatible with that program. My father has the program and so does my paternal grandmother. We're all compatible with our program because we all have the same physical structure (more or less). So the Smith model is compatible with the Lisp program. My mom's side doesn't have the program.
And just like with computer programs, we can override (some or all?) programs in our brain. I can override the Lisp program or bend the rules of it when I make a concentrated effort. If I don't think, it just comes out naturally, but I can override it.
The monk who set himself on fire, was he able to override the program that makes us feel pain? Or perhaps just the one that makes of respond to it? I hope it was the former.
~ scribed March 19, 2011
My brain is not consciousness. It's a computer (as in something that computes). My consciousness is the energy coming through when someone hit the "on" switch. it's like electricity. It's the power.
Consciousness = Power
Brain = Computer
Body = monitor, mouse and all that shit that happens on screen because the computer makes it happen
The monitor, keyboard, mouse, internet, etc., work because they're attached to a compatible computer[], but with no electricity the whole thing's dead. Computers come of a certain make and model; they come with programs already inside them. Microsoft word was already programmed inside our computer and we see it on the screen because of that. But the electricity that powers it is not programmed to do anything. it's harvested[is that the right word? probably not]. Similarly, my lisp was already programmed into my brain, and I have a body compatible with that program. My father has the program and so does my paternal grandmother. We're all compatible with our program because we all have the same physical structure (more or less). So the Smith model is compatible with the Lisp program. My mom's side doesn't have the program.
And just like with computer programs, we can override (some or all?) programs in our brain. I can override the Lisp program or bend the rules of it when I make a concentrated effort. If I don't think, it just comes out naturally, but I can override it.
The monk who set himself on fire, was he able to override the program that makes us feel pain? Or perhaps just the one that makes of respond to it? I hope it was the former.
~ scribed March 19, 2011