Notes On Consciousness

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Speculating about consciousness, just

because speculating is fun, I would say,

consciousness could very well be the

neuron's state of equilibrium. Sort of a

perfectly balanced energy field that when

disturbed by input has the ability to restore

itself, therefore recording the disturbance

as memory. And it's the qualia of that

transaction that we call consciousness.

 

Pete

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Pete,

 

Taking the sharpest razor blade to cut through consciousness til you

reached the neurons won't help to escape the realization that

consciousness factually is just a function needed for communication.

 

Consciousness works serial, else you couldn't listen to a symphony or

understand spoken sentences. Sound is shifted into consciousness and

becomes memory til it fades away. Only because that memorized sound is

hold for a while in consciousness you can listen to music. Same with

waching a movie. You can only see a movie as " living " because the

single pictures got shifted serially into consciousness and are stored

there for a short moment.

 

I remember my last LSD trip I took 35 years ago in a Munich park . I

suddenly saw the single pictures of my view, similar like a card deck

you spread on a table. Because of that I tolally lost orientation, just

seeing the world as single pictures will freeze you on the spot. Then i

realized if I turn arround myself then this movement is fast enough to

melt those pictures together to represent a vivid orientation.

 

And so I danced like a whirling derwish for about two hours throught

that park in Munich in order not to lose orientation. Thanks heaven it

was arround midnight and I didn't meet a single person

 

Werner

 

 

Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie5 wrote:

>

> Speculating about consciousness, just

> because speculating is fun, I would say,

> consciousness could very well be the

> neuron's state of equilibrium. Sort of a

> perfectly balanced energy field that when

> disturbed by input has the ability to restore

> itself, therefore recording the disturbance

> as memory. And it's the qualia of that

> transaction that we call consciousness.

>

> Pete

>