Biological basis of consciousness - Framework for PD

[Sunnybayes]

I am attempting to describe a analytical framework for PD where someone can take any PD advice and actually tie it down to a physical reality anchor without getting caught up in fuzzy nice sounding wording. But I raise a good question about consciousnesses in part of the post and I think that more people here would be interested in discussing that part.

I would have originally posted it here, but I wanted it to keep it in that thread together with all the other post in that thread because I'm trying to make a framework.


Here is the link to the post to get the neccessary background
My figure out the feelings inside my brain/body thread

And here is the part that I would like to discuss:

Observation = consciousness = when information/electricity flows up the hierarchy:

Okay, so big juicy curious thought here :
Every atom of the universe has a small piece of consciousness in it, after all how else would a rock know when it gets kicked by your foot? But that you become conscious because your brain organizes that consciousness using the IRs, and that "you" (the part of you that says "I") is when the consciousness converges at the top of the of the hierarchy of the cerebral cortex, so that you can command and think of higher order goals/IRs and they are higher order more complex goals because they are higher up in the hierarchy. And so now it is a question of is there a genetic DNA program that directs the thalamus to direct the consciousness? So that we are just biological robots? Or does the consciousness somehow direct itself? But I don’t think that makes sense if the consciousness directs itself, because consciousness is part of every atom in the universe, so we must be biological robots... oh well :-) ... thank goodness evolution programmed in our human morals right?? ... those poor cows and pigs ...

But I have not thought through of how the consciousness converges into I. Maybe I'll have a nice theory in a week or so.

Does anyone think that this is a good idea, or a horribly stupid one?

[JMan]

Interesting post here. I haven't researched this much, but it sounds like you're in the neighborhood of understanding.

So, we know all things are matter, or more specifically energy in vibration. Including thought. Consciousness though, is different from thought....hmm....

Well, your post got me thinking; when I think 'aloud' in my mind, i'm forming words, my mind is forming ideas, and is giving off 'vibrations' as the ideas are formed. The ideas stimulate minute physical/chemical responses in my body, which, if given the technology, could be measured. So, if each word/emotion combination has it's own unique vibration and phys/chem response associated, and if we were able to map them, we could develop 'mind reading' technology, down to the sentence a person is 'thinking'. It's reading/interpreting thought waves, basically, or chem responses, or a combination. Now, imagine some tech earphone that took those readings and translated them back into spoken word, wouldn't that be cool. I think this is possible, with work. You could listen to people in their sleep, or in a coma, or with some other devices, from across the room. Wonder when they're going to figure this out...