evolution and consciousness

[Guest guest]

An interesting article at

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/2948/gould.html

 

When I read Gould, the question I always ask is what force drives

self-organization; and from what nothingness did something emerge? And

were the event that led down the fragile path to humanity by chance or

design or just the natural vector of some impersonal evolutionary

force?

 

I think the answer is what the ancient chinese called the unknowable

dao? It all seems to hinge on whether consciousness is an emergent

property or the source of all manifestation? Scientists will keep

looking for the physical explanations of how it all began and seekers

will continue to practice consciousness altering techniques in order to

locate the source from within.

 

The universe collapses in on itself after expansion ends. If

consciousness is just merely another aspect of manifest reality as

materialists would have it, then when the universe finally shrinks into

another infinitely small and dense point awaiting another big bang,

does not that singularity contain every " element " that was formerly

part of whatever consciousness is?

 

Both materialists and others would have to agree that whatever

consciousness was in the expanded universe, it's potential existence

was all contained in a single point before the big bang. Whether this

is God before creation or just some unconscious force of nature can

only be speculated. We can never rationally know of the nature of the

world in the time before there was anything to measure because no atom

as yet existed. Measurement and rationing go hand in hand, you know.

So the only possible way to ever know of this time before the universe

existed is if this " source " is still present (perhaps as the dark

matter matrix of the universe??) and can be perhaps contacted via the

exploration of the mind.

 

But how would we ever achieve a consensus on a " finding " of that

nature? If somehow many could have a shared experience of what was

called samadhi or satori in ancient texts and that shared experience

could be agreed to be " real " . But how does one ever know that such an

experience is anything other than shared imagination or something akin

to group schizophrenia? The wheel just turns and turns, which is why

we leave this debate to philosophers and do not let it impinge on

medicine where it has no place as it yields no practical answer.

Medicine is nothing without praxis. We can prove meditation is helpful

for chronic pain, but it proves nothing more profound than that.

 

 

 

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