Consciousness is tripping me out. I have conversations with one person early in the day and later, someone else continues it where we left off.
Sometimes it's hard to believe this is really happening...but something's happening. Crazy little ripples. Sometimes they are really innocuous and sometimes they seem profound.
Anyway I am interested in humans as an observation point.
In What the Bleep, in the extended interviews, one of the professors was saying it would be ridiculous to think that the consciousness of a cat or mouse could have an effect on its environment.
It makes me think about evolution, how after our common ancestor, the other apes went one way, we went another... and clearly we ended up with "more" consciousness, since we are writing music and building cities. But if we evolved, that means the consciousness evolved with us, which would mean the potential for "our" consciousness was there in the beginning with the simpler creatures, going back to when life first appeared on the planet, so it had to tap into that potential consciousness too, which means that before lifeforms could have consciousness, the consciousness must have been there "somewhere".
But then again there's no such thing as time....
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