Consciousness
The New
Oxford Dictionary defines ‘conscious’ as:
aware of (and (indeed equal to … my opinion) responding
to) one’s surroundings: awake. The
term is derived from Latin conscious, ‘knowing with others or in oneself
(from ‘con’ with + scire ‘know’ as in ‘be privy to’). True primary
knowledge is the immediate (to wit, unmediated, therefore real) response to
contact. A contact (as single quantum) is an impact (such as the affect of a photon that strikes the eye stressor or a
wave particle that strikes the ear), hence a (one-off) stressor (read: bit). Contact
stresses, hence triggers a response. A series of contacts triggers a series
of responses. A biological hence dynamic system responding to a series of
contacts appears (to an observer or a self-observer) to be alive. Creating an
internal (meaning mental, hence virtual) connection between a series of
contacts (hence a (secondary knowledge) pattern or map, to wit, a visual or
sound image (i.e. a byte), all virtual, then
applying (i.e. stressing, i.e. contacting) oneself with that map/image
produces the self-affect of consciousness. In short,
consciousness happens as the function of internal, hence virtual pattern or
map (=image) reading, the map (=image) deriving from the memory of contact
series. Each map (or image) represents (virtually) a particular actual system
state. Hence, consciousness serves as continuous system states reporting
function. It is user friendly because vast streams of data have been compressed
and transformed into easily accessible patterns or maps/images. Obviously,
the map (i.e. consciousness = the coming (or
continuously relating) together of a series of individual contacts as bits of
primary knowledge) is not the territory (i.e. the reality of a primary
contact). The map (or image) created in the brain happens as virtual
reality/territory. The actual (or real) territory in fact presents (hence
acts as) quantised, that is to say, it happens (and therefore momentarily is because contact happens @
1c2 capacity) as individual bit impact/stressor. By providing
system states reports, past, present and future, consciousness serves as
navigation aid. It provides to the brain with user friendly data (i.e. images = maps) which the brain needs so that it can
compute the probable best next step towards increased survival capacity,
meaning, acquiring food, a mate or avoiding danger. In this
regard see: Understanding the brain as blind biological
navigation system, i.e. as Bio-Nav |