What is consciousness

True education consists in this: to feel joy and grief at the right things. Aristotle

“The anima is not the soul in the dogmatic sense . . . It is something that lives of itself, that makes us live; it is a life behind consciousness that cannot be completely integrated with it.” Jung

“Since the stars have fallen from heaven and our highest symbols have paled, a secret life holds sway in the unconscious. That is why we have a psychology today, and why we speak of the unconscious.” Jung

Intelligence is logical but not logically equivalent to consciousness. Consciousness therefore is an illogical variable but not in an illogical sense of the word, because consciousness is necessarily illogical in its entirety.  This means that if everything were logical as in linear in the universe there would be no need to renew itself. Conceptually, consciousness also helps explain why phenomenon presents itself without filter as irrefutable evidence of all causes which cannot be predicted.  We as entities have seperate causes. This also eludes us to believe in phenomenon which cannot be explained nor needs introduction. So if the brain is equipped with or without a universal filter, from which all things are examined and observed, it is exactly because of this unknown variable which consciousness is unexplainable by virtue of it. If God had only answers informed from brain matter, that those answers were if at all accurate, means that there are no filters associated with brain activity.  An inactive brain can still live in the body as comatose. So nothing in the universe can actually be questioned.

That is a metaphysical question. It cannot be answered. Truthfully, consciousness does not exist. If consciousness were a program it would be something to deceive you or I. However, because if god created brain matter to be able to diffuse us from our own actions, our own minds, our own bodies would gravitate to that eternal concept of consciousness. If we are on a journey through which we contact your consciousness or mine. God or the eternal consciousness would exactly be revealed to all of us simultaneously. God would have removed the filter we have in order to exalt the eternal mode of consciousness. Can you reach it. No. Can you touch it. No. Is it real. No.

If faith hope and love were to make all things a model of ourselves in the universe, all things rational would be either irrefutable and vaguely impossible. We don't deserve things that are plastic. We deserve things which already are.

What is a person's nature? If a person's coping mechanism shuts down for any lapse of time you read into it (thought of as guilt turned inward) leads to examine how I confuse my own feelings. Irony never expressed my true inhibition. A god fearing type not fully revealing itself.

Does this link biology as in life with the cosmos as in evolutionary theory. One could state does one codify their inorganic matter without assigning it to an intellectual basis, through channeling of inner deformity (biology) and curative elements outside our control. (cosmos)

“It is the growth of consciousness which we must thank for the existence of problems; they are the dubious gift of civilization. It is just man's turning away from instinct—his opposing himself to instinct—that creates consciousness.” Jung

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. Confucius

"Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind."

- Meher Baba

I have known this my whole life, yet been condemned because of it.> "It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them."

—Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’tmatter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.”

– Terence McKenna

When I think of my past, my inhibitions relate to many different things attached. And the liberation I partook in is a whole other matter.

“The concept of the unconscious is an assumption for the sake of convenience. In reality I am totally unconscious of—or, in other words, I do not know at all—where the voice comes from.” Jung

Feel the sadness.
Let go of the anger.

Get back on your bullshit. #TrustTheProcess

Revel in the anarchy of love. Run amok in the heady essence of uncertain freedom.

“You do not make an intuition. On the contrary, it always comes to you; you have a hunch, it has come of itself, and you only catch it if you are clever or quick enough.” Jung

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.” Michel Foucault

Ll“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.” Arthur Rimbaud

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.

You are free.

~ Jim Morrison

“Myth is the primordial language natural to these psychic processes, and no intellectual formulation comes anywhere near the richness and expressiveness of mythical imagery.” Jung

“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance” Albert Einstein

“Continuity is only a mathematical technique for approximating very finely grained things. The world is subtly discrete, not continuous.” Carlo Rovelli

“History teaches us over and over again that, contrary to rational expectation, irrational factors play the largest, indeed the decisive, role in all processes of psychic transformation.” Jung

“The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming.” Carlo Rovelli

Be you, the world will adjust. 

I'm an open book written in a dead language

There’s something inside you that no one can get to. No one can touch. It’s all yours. It’s you. You’re own personal heaven. That’s sacred.

My rebuttal to the verse below: I like the thought. Once you break it down role playing vicitims will always be the same ones acting threatened by you and use reverse psychology to justify what is discriminatory or prejudice toward their alibi. Such is Trump's fledgling idiocracy. - MA 

It’s time we take a long hard look at jailing the Canadians. This threatening behavior has gone on long enough.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, Santayana declared, and the metaphor is apt. The mind that seeks the deepest intellectual fulfillment does not give itself up to every passing idea. Yet what is sometimes forgotten is the larger purpose of such a virtue.~Richard Tarnas

Everything those pragmatic points lead me to is ultimately my own personal choice with chauvanism as a disconnect. My aversion to detail.  Habits that would model as only I would put forth based on one's own philosophical questions. - MA

“Rational awareness requires separation. Consciousness is only possible when the subject is set over against an object.” Charles Taylor

“Plato’s argument can sometimes be understood on this model, that is, as the discovery of contradiction in formulae which are put forward as definitions of a certain idea or standard and are then successively set aside for more adequate ones.” Charles Taylor

So forget that Plato is a philosophical disciple of thought. If I am to be a critic requires to be as vague as possible that it easily abjures contradiction. Therefore, an antithesis which becomes a model or informs us, giving birth to the new.

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there’s no worse feeling than being so vibrantly addicted to someone who feels neutral about you

It happens only because you think it happens, so the more accurate sensation is to counter that. Why put yourself in the center of unbelievability/vulnerability. MA

I use to feel that way about myself. The wiring in me changed. I suppose I just became too weird for myself. Though in a good natured way. MA

"The ego is a fictional idea” David Hume

“Passion is a primitive existence or, if you will, a primitive mode of existence” David Hume

“Beauty is not an intrinsic quality of things. It exists only in the mind of the beholder" David Hume

Nobody is real. We are all just carefully crafted (some less carefully) manifestations of life experiences and knowledge that we’ve chosen to accept along the way.

Trust your gut. Information is great, but nothing beats intuition.

True. But some people a use their intuitive self to project themselves as abusive of privilege. In other words they make themselves scarecrows. Using your brain is a silent predator.

“A freedom rooted in our nature, and yet which can be frustrated by our own desires . . . requires a more articulated, many-levelled theory of human motivation. It is very doubtful whether any theory which recognizes only hiefficient causation can do justice to it.” Charles Taylor

Human motivation vs. Efficient causation is the definition of do you prefer yam fries over/under traditional fries.  Invocably our words are at the heart of our most basic motivation whereas language metaphysically attributes to all subjective causation.

He could always rely on to reduce those whom he wanted to impress to immediate obedience without having to retort to divine dialect.

José Saramago (2009) Cain

Eudaimonia

I just sit here.
In a quiet discomfort.
All my own.
The attempt for something greater
then my own will - will adopt.
So I search here in wonder.
I just sit there,
in my quiet discomfort.
What I want is to be found,
but I never will be between extremes.
Imagining the disappointment.
An illusion of it.
Sitting here in my discomfort.
Of what internal implications
might enter the hidden door.
I recall the things I can recall.
And as I do recall them,
answers are better asked as questions.
From what sense of discomfort?
From where might I enjoy this view....
From how incredibly ignorant I am.
From why the irony thickens.
This lost sense of discomfort in I.
As I get to the point where my birds-eye,
shapes the view of my heart.
Not distant yet so far far away.

And I speak of discomfort in me.