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Re: Consciousness as a function of mental word use

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How does this follow from what is being discussed?
If I pretend like I am following along, I would say in this moment, that silent revelation is very similar, if not same, for all conscious life and/or sentient beings. I'd tend to go with conscious life.
Fine. But how you differentiate that kind of consciousness from human consciousness? I don't disagree that birds and bugs are conscious, in fact they can be knocked unconscious, but they are not conscious in the same way humans are conscious.

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You've had divine communication. Everyone has. I find it implausible to not have it. But permissible to forget about it and/or disassociate with it.
I'm not at all clear how you can speak for me when I have already spoken for myself. Do you know more about me than I do?

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What do you mean "language is objective?" Other than mathematics, I'm not sure I could agree.
A language has rules that are objective, but one can do all sorts of subjective things with language, such as pretend it doesn't matter when you're talking about human consciousness.

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You are talking to a "word" guy. I appreciate highly the written word. But at same time, my appreciation for "unspoken language" runs deep.
Do you mean something like the unspoken language between flowers?


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