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Originally Posted by Chris_1977  Although the idea of "levels of consciousness" has merit IMO, I have to wonder at what number the idea that a persons/a books level of consciousness is expressible "calibrates"? I bet not very high. This is just too naive to take seriously. |
I don't understand exactly what you are asking but I suppose I have an idea.
A book can calibrate at a certain level based on the "position" that the book is written from. It is not the actual pages of the books themselves that are "conscious and aware" so to speak. It is that they convey a certain level of truth.
So, if I write a scientific dissertation concerning the double helix of DNA, that text will probably calibrate around the 400's which is the level of the intellect and science.
Similarly, if I write a text that says it is the duty of a white man to kill all black men, that would probably calibrate extremely low, at 150 (anger) or even as low as 20-30 (genocide and extreme hatred).
On the other hand, I could write a book about how to forgive your enemies, which might calibrate at the position of Love at 500.
So, I think it is all about the "position" that one takes. Hawkins mentions a few times in his book that often a politician, for instance, will calibrate highly but might take a "position" that calibrates lower than himself, because he is trying to either pander to his constituents or genuinely represent them. So at least in that area, a person's "position" can calibrate differently than their actual level. I am just assuming from that understanding that this is sort of the way that calibrations of books work. It is the position of the text that determines its level. I don't think these calibrations actually reflect the paper on which the words themselves are written, but the meaning that the text is trying to convey.
If you are asking at what level the process of "calibration" itself calibrates at, Hawkins has said that the calibration method itself calibrates at 605.