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Originally Posted by Max Power  I'm not convinced we even need to have levels of awareness. Awareness is awareness, plain and simple, if you want to add in thought and emotion, then I suppose you could sense different levels of feeling, but awareness is like consciousness, you're either consciousness or you're not  |
Of course we don't need them - as I stated at the beginning of my posting, I'm quite aware of the fact that this is a construct.
I am consciousness, whether I'm aware of it or not - there's no energy in the universe that could do anythingagainst it. But by level of awareness I measure to which degree I'm aware of the fact that I am indeed consciousness and only consciousness. The lower I am, the more I tend to identify myself with things I'm not, like a certain job, my body, my feelings, a certain belief system, and so on.
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No levels are required, they are just labels to make something very simple, overly complex.
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You could be right. But after all, I'm an autist to some degree (there it is again - I'm identifying myself with it...), and at least at the monent I need some structure for my own emotional security - as well as a very structured day provides me with the emotional security I need so I can tolerate at least a bit of change or working out of my confort zone.