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Originally Posted by cadmar  Consciousness is always on-going and in the now, even though what you are focusing on is on past experiences or future anticipation/worries. To think of this moment will be having a brain that has no chemical releases. In my model, these chemical releases (call them desires/wants or what ever terms you like) create patterns in the brain. If you are in a sensory deprivation chamber in which without twitching a finger, your brain will have hardly any outside inputs (sesory patterns). Then it will be obvious the thoughts (brain patterns) made by the chemical releases. Dreams are also a function of these chemical releases. These chemical releases take away the brain being sensitive to "that" which is not caused by sensors and chemical releases. I call this the energy of life. To get an idea of this, go to Ted.com and see David Bolinsky's 3 minute computer animation of "Inside a Cell". This had taken him 3 years to do a 3 minute clip and it's very insightful into the life of the cell.
I think it is quite straightforward in reducing these chemical releases that thought is not the way to go as thought is a product of these chemical releases. The chemical releases can only be reduced by itself. By it breaking itself down. That is, not to open the gate and be released. |
Conciousness is the absence of thought? Something above thought? If so, is there even a word that can describe it? Is it a feeling? It must be something. The only alternative is nothing.