What we call «empirical science» (related to our senses) may be part of
human consciousnesses just like spirituality (related to hopes); I know that I have both.
Not exact matches
... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their
consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who
just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the
Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.
In its fundamental freedom — true not
just for the becoming of each moment of the
human consciousness but for all of creation — everything that emerges into a new present is not bound either by its past (fatalism) or by God (determinism).
consciousness is present in all matter,
just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the big bang, only its level of existence varies with evolution, highest is that of living things, at the top is us
humans because of the biological nature of our existence we evolve fastest and our brains has attained the highest level of complexity
If
consciousness could exist outside of the
human brain and wasn't
just something produced by the brain interacting with the environment, where would it exist?
So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling
just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of
consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the
human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?
And
just as the higher forms of mind enjoy
consciousness, we should expect that the mind of this transhuman reality enjoys an even more intense form of
consciousness of its own, distinct from temporal
humans.
This new and developing form of
human consciousness is still far from universal, but the world that we each create in our heads1 (our mental picture of reality) is now being constructed rather differently, by absorbing innumerable bits of knowledge and information from all over the world, not
just from our own small locality.
We are
just beginning to see a quantum leap forward in
human consciousness where the Big Picture is coming into focus in the minds of many people.
Just because science hasn't explained the genesis of life, or the phenomenon of
human consciousness, or even how the big bang banged — it doesn't mean that it will never do so in the future.
That is,
just as the
human mind is, in terms of my theory, an enduring intentional field of activity for successive moments of
consciousness, so the enduring reality of God is an intentional field of activity which overlaps the structured field of activity proper to the universe.
Just as creative union has produced a greater definition of the terms united, so the final involution of
human consciousness will have brought humankind to its natural acme of personalization.
When I spoke with transhumanist novelist Zoltan Istvan about what transhumanists imagine the future will be like when
humans evolve to their best self, he said that besides living forever,
humans will be bodiless —
just brilliant, self - actualized, formless
consciousness.
At first, the central question is the theoretical one put forth by Nathan, but
just as the movie starts to peel back the layers of its thoughts on
human consciousness, the questions becomes a far more mundane: Which of these three characters can we trust, and if we can't trust them, why can't we?
As I recall (I read the book four or five years ago, before the issue of climate change had reached its current position of primacy in my
consciousness), the book deals with
just about every aspect of the consequences of sudden
human departure from Earth except climate change, so in that sense it forms a perfect complement to the studies described in Kate's article above.
Perhaps with time, zombies will develop higher levels of
consciousness just as
humans and other animals do.