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Originally Posted by Radical  An interesting quote I found from a website discussing The Meaning of Life.
"While our consciousness seems to depend on the matter in our brains, we cannot detect anything unusual about our brains that would indicate why consciousness is attached to it. If we agree that consciousness is in the brain as a whole, is it in a single neuron? A single atom? A single electron? Assuming that nothing exists except for interacting particles, somehow within every particle there is something that provides the basis for consciousness.
Complex conscious activity may require highly complex structures such as our brains to occur, but the basis of consciousness must be present in matter itself. Our minds are simply one manifestation of a universal phenomenon. People are examples of one way to organize the consciousness in matter. Are there other ways? How can we know which types of organizations of matter yield high-level consciousness like ours, and which do not? Are there structures which support levels of consciousness higher than ours? Are doorknobs conscious?"
What are your thoughts? |
It seems to work off the assumption that there is more than one conciousness present within reality. But I understand what is trying to be expressed.
Reminds me much of how some telekinesis techniques are explained. Such as, asking the object you're trying to move mentally, persuading it to cooperate. But of course, you may be just asking yourself (Conciousness or Sub-conciousness, Source, reality) to allow the object to move, because it's already within your complete control and you just don't realize it yet.
Also, to support the idea of all objects having their own individual conciousness would be how some people can read the 'memory' or history of an object they hold or barely reach out and touch. (Naturally or learnt)