Conscience

[Guest guest]

The more I analyze consciousness, the more I find there the issue

of 'choice with/without conscience' an intriguing one to consider.

What is conscience? From where does it arise? Conditioning? From

within consciousness? When one faces a decision, who does the

choosing?

 

I think of my conscience as an inner guide wich allows me to choose

between what I know is right and what I know is wrong. This knowing

comes from all of the teachings I have learned throughout the history

of my brain's development. I have accepted what is True as what is

True as what is True and what is Wrong as what is Wrong as what is

Wrong.

 

And I have never questioned it.

 

Until now.

 

Conscience.

 

This idea, 'conscience', what is it? It's a piece of my perception

of the world and how I should conduct myself in it. I have

conditioned myself to conduct myself in a socially acceptable way,

based on how I have been conditioned. It seems like a loop operation

in effect here. It's as though I have been programmed to behave a

certain way in a certain setting. In each setting, I behave

according to the software.

 

If I were confronted with a different and unfamiliar set of social

circumstances - like jungle life in the Amazon Forest - I wouldn't

know how to behave. Nothing would compute, so to speak. I would

probably try to behave in the only way that made sense to me in this

new setting. Before losing my mind, I would at least try to conform

to and accept the new circumstances. Either that or give up hope.

 

As an Amazonian Forester now, I would first have to learn the customs

of the natives. Learning their language would come along with that,

right up there in first place. Tied. Language and Customs. Without

learning these I could not adapt successfully to my new environment

in the jungle amongst these seemingly savage natives. They only seem

savage to me due to my unfamiliarity with their language and

customs. So, so, so, what was I talking about? I lost my train of

thought.

 

Oh, yeah. Conscience. Right. Well, how do I choose between right

and wrong?

 

" Silver "