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[arkain101]

Consciousness almost has no meaning without awareness...

Can you have consciousness when you remove knowledge? When you remove knowledge you remove awareness.

In that sense, a child is born pretty well unconscious. It is not aware, it lacks almost all possible knowledge. Even considering the ability to focus its eyes.

Our consciousness evolves with our growth of knowledge. From childhood to adult hood we (hopefully) transform our sense of awareness and consciousness.

When you think back to your youngest age... do you find your consciousness was different? You can only think back as far as your sense of awareness, and most likely your sense of self awareness of self. By self awareness I mean things like, feeling you should change your cloths in private. Developing a preference of music, books, and toys. You begin awakening into the world of choice and preference.

I believe consciousness is bounded by beliefs. And we must always reside under a belief set. It is almost as though you are ensared.

However, you can evolve your snare. You can, like Neo in the matrix, unplug for them world and belief set, then you can plug back in, because you have to plug back in to take part in anything, but you can plug back in with a different boundry.

Human consciousness has evolved. We have unplugged and plugged back into the matrix of reality many many times. To the animal world we are NEO the magician. With our mind, we create houses, and roads, and buildings, and cars, and computers and internet, and spaceships.. etc... etc..

We dont even break free from the matrix of consciousness, we can only evolve our boundry of belief. Disbelief is one of the greatest obstacles of advancement. For as long as man believed it is impossible to fly, they did not fly.

Consciousness has gone through a series of transformations. Each of different levels and complexity.

I wouldnt know how to produce an accurate list..

But the most recent transformation was the one where we broke out of the tribal mind into the culture mind. Or whatever transformation that enabled our creativity and inventive communication to break free form the animal mind..

One mistake I think we make is that this evolution is permanent. It is not.

Our consciousness is our knowledge, and our knowledge is floating in the wind as it were. It developed through cooperation, and is continually taught back to more cooperators.

If we ever lost our ability to teach.. If we lost 99% of the world population.. Our consciousness would easily fall back into a tribal animal state.


So I think by this explaination, to understand consciousness, then one should learn all there is no know about knowledge. How we store, it, share it, make it, communicate it, define it.

It is that consciousness' level of meaning is related to its knowledge.. Your only as conscious as the meaning you develop out of chaos.