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Re: Consciousness and senses

(pasted from part of a summary I wrote up on a book idea I was working on)

Think about this. The human body does NOT have hologram projectors attached to it, or any other form of visual projection systems to produce a reality that is LITERALLY outside of ourselves. The organic computer builds a universe of meaning and reason -out of the putty of information(so to speak)- internally, this internal 'space' can sort of be thought of as the absolutely 100% unequivocally unknown, just like the space in the universe we see in the night sky (its like nothing). But nothing is a bad term to use. It says that we know what it is, but we don't. It is unknown.

This orgarnic computer produces this internal world so effectively, that the internal projection that it creates of an object (or anything for that matter), convinces itself that it is external. When it does this, it convinces itself into believing it has created an identity for the ontological reality (absolutely 100% unequivocally unknown). It believes that the projection within its conscious universe is truly external, but it is philisophically speaking, it is not. In other words this is us saying "There is a tree over there on that hill under those clouds". There is no tree over there in the ontological sense, it is only the world internally that produces this meaning, and validates it when it goes over there to prove it.



Based on this analysis, we find ourselves inside this vast world that is in this vast galaxy, that is in this vast universe, where we naturally assume what we see is what is, and is what is real, and is what is truly reality. However, none of it, absolutely no single describing detail is possible to physically exist beyond this internal universe created by this organic computer. The internal projection works so well we live it as real as anything could possibly be.

What this tells us is that we are, is something that time has allowed us to become, and that is astounding artists. However, it originated from a long branching tree of evolution, and we can guess at least on earth, that every single living entity that does exist on earth and has existed is and was a part of that same tree.

For example, we as human beings embody pretty much this entire tree. That is, this tree in much of its whole scale is a human being. This tree contains things like cells, small multi-cell organisms, bacteria, viruses, microscopic creatures, and slightly larger creatures like parasites, and what not, touch, smell, taste, hearing, sight, degrees of freedom and spacial awareness; as well as other creatures likes birds and fish and worms and insects; also, plant life, algie, fungus, and heck! Dinosuars.

The fact is that this tree is long, and it has many many branches representing the paths of evolution, some paths branch out from the trunk and stop (parts of evolution that ended), and the ones that are at the very top are the ones that continue even to this day. Our human body is literally formed out of this tree even today, our phsyical body form is a function of many parts (cells, small multi-cell organisms, bacteria, viruses, microscopic creatures, and slightly larger creatures like parasites, and what not, touch, smell, taste, hearing, sight, degrees of freedom and spacial awareness) these parts can also be thought of as branches.

Of course we can't expect that all of these branches (epistemological pathways) made it to this age. Nor can we assume or expect that each one is a part of us, but many of them are. Interestingly, this suggest to us that we are all -and everything alive is- a part of the tree of life. We are many parts and things sprouting from the same core. Some forms of life only embody one branch, while others like ourselves embody many branches.

Everything that is living is experiencing an epistemological way of life. For us, as humans, we embody most of this tree, but other things like plants for example may only embody one branch, and it may be suggestible that something like a plant is no more aware of our human reality than the cells in our hair or skin are, whatever the case in that respect, what we can know is that those evolutionary branches still reach to the very top of the tree where we are today.

The tree -this tree of life that I have presented- and its many branches have many different forms of epistemological awareness. And because we are formed out of many branches of that tree we too contain many levels of awareness as well. We have parts of our body doing all kinds of jobs that is seemingly beyond our control, not to mention our conscious awareness. Our conscious awareness has become enveloped with the visual aspects of reality. It has become probably our most important form of conscious awareness. We nearly depend on vision alone for the majority of our survival. This area of our awareness has become our place where truth is validated and disposed. Because it serves and has served for a very long time to be so effective and has proved time and time again to succeed, we are naturally convicted to our very core that it is the hardcore and absolute definition on what reality is, as well as the all powerful guide in our 'epi' (epistemological world).


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