Consciousness

The word purposeless entails divergence, while the word purposeful entails convergence, as in a constructive sequence of “if-then” statements in a deductive sequence.

Consciousness cannot arise from materialistic interactions but rather the material manifestations are the perceptions OF consciousness.

Perception operates in accordance with the laws of causality, where the results of intentionality become causality. In other words, causality cannot be a statistical fluke that keeps maintaining order and regularity in defiance of the concept of randomness, because the very idea of randomness entails divergence with no real “purpose”.

That is to say, the succession of causal events exist as an ordered framework consisting of past/ancestral events, which appear to constrain all future/descendant events.

Time is also necessarily defined as an ordered relation, entailing convergence. Consciousness entails intentionality and intentionality entails causality.

The material universe is necessarily a consequence of consciousness.

Sorry mate you have lost me on this one…can you explain in in simpler terms so us mere mortals can understand what the hell you are talking about??? :-s

What is your argument? As far as I can see, both consciousness arises from the material world and the material world is a perception.

There is no reason to say this. Remember that the idea of causality arises from obervations of the material world. So do the ideas of randomness and the interaction of laws and randomness in the formation of complexity. Laws are mechanistic and on their own can not lead to complexity. But randomness, while as a whole leading to diversity, in lucky instances (like the Earth) NECESSARILY leads to complexity. You can’t have one without the other.