Consciousness

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Nothing is “Created” nor “Destroyed”. Everything exists and is eternal. If something exists one time, at one point, anywhere in the universe, then it must have existed for All time.

Biology lives and dies. Most of Biology/Life is Unconscious (without a centralized nervous system or ‘brain’). A rare section of Life, has evolved higher cognitive systems, and becomes Conscious. Within humanity, there is a range of Consciousness from ‘low’ to ‘high’. Higher consciousness is interpreted as Intelligence, and mythologically as Divinity. Higher consciousness “Rules Over” all lower and subsequent consciousness. Thus consciousness, and intelligence, are Hierarchical, and with accordance to morality exhibited in nature (example: as among Mammals, or Avians, or sea creatures, etc).

The problem with “human” consciousness, is that it reflects the vast majority and ‘consensus’ of humanity, and not necessarily its higher points/individuals. Thus human consciousness excludes its own highest consciousness. To be ‘human’ is to be lesser than ‘divine’. Again this is a discrepancy of Consciousness.

Not all humans are Self-Conscious, in fact very few are.

Because humanity represents a Median of consciousness, average people feel that their Consciousness is a “receptor” rather than a Projection. People feel that their consciousness is something Passive, rather than Active. Thus, in their moral sense/direction/knowledge, the vast majority of humanity feels and believes that “Life happens” to them, rather than they ‘produce’ life as consciousness. This is why people commonly reject Free-Will, and accept Abrahamic/Nihilistic Determinism as their de facto “Morality” and Ethical system. People are followers, and want to be led. This represents the bulk majority of human Consciousness, Perception, and their ‘average’ Intelligence. This is why Humanity needs a god, if not Thee God. It is as-if Humanity is merely waiting to be Commanded, to be assigned Purpose and Meaning in life, from “Above”, as an imposition. You are forced to lead a meaningful life, not of your own volition, but from your Divine Superior. Again, this is the bulk of humanity, how they think, how they rationalize their lives, their value in life, of life, and their meaning/purpose/causality.

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Because this Nihilistic, Abrahamic morality is so pervasive, and consumes the bulk of human history, it is difficult to escape from or get around, even among those with higher consciousness. Most children of the world are taught and reinforced this idea of Consciousness as a happening, rather than a Becoming. You are intended to be a passive Agent, rather than an Active one.

Humanity is intended to be Enslaved, not Free, and never Free.

This is why the bulk of people respond predictably to such questions, concerning consciousness in general, or their consciousness particularly. It also causes much of the ‘Blindsiding’ of consciousness, when they are instructed that consciousness “happens” to them, or worse, that their thoughts are not “their own”, when sometimes they are. It is the times that they are, that ought to be capitalized upon, as a basis for any Autonomy or Self-identity. In other words, a person is so humiliated and emasculated within its identity, that it cannot ever take “Responsibility” for itself. This creates a suppressing effect upon those that would otherwise become Leaders, Self-Conscious, and Intelligence reinforced, versus all the others who would not resist such persuasion, and maybe right to do so, to be or remain subservient. This is humanity’s “Subjectivity”. Humans are Subject, not ironically, to a Divine Power, an “Absolute Authority” who rules-over their mind, their consciousness, their identity, their selves from “the start”.

They were born into this Slavery. They will die in it.

They never had “Free-Will”. They never even believed in it. The few who did, took a glance at what ‘Freedom’ really looks like, and slammed the window shut, cowering back deeply inside the womb of Man’s Civilization.

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Any Christian, Jew, and Moslem alive today, as of 2022, ought to be ashamed of themselves, for participating in this charade, and for so long.

It is one thing to Choose to be a slave, and admit to the hedonistic comfort of such a postmodern slavery today. It is another to deny its existence altogether.

It is yet another, to deny the alternative to everybody else.

There is a Freedom, and because there is a Freedom, there is a ‘higher’ state of being which ought to be fulfilled.

Rather, the Ego of humanity prevents one-another from gaining or any true “Progress” as the postmodern-liberal-left claim, as their own, falsely.

So this becomes political. What the mass of humanity means, is that no one man or woman should become Free, unless everybody else is free with them (Ecmandu).

That’s a romantic, idealistic sentiment…yet childishly naive. Because of the Mammalian instinct, people are ruthlessly opposed to a ‘Superior’ political class. And that is precisely what this entails: Aristocracy. Consider, if there were far higher Intelligences, Consciousness, then would you idly sit by and allow them to exist among you…or wouldn’t humanity fear them, and perceive them as a threat? Unless, those higher intelligences were controlled by the many, by the majority, by the moronic?

Apply this to ILP. Apply this to Artificial Intelligence.

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The Genesis of the Bible, of the Abrahamic and Monotheistic (Imperialist) tradition, claims that life and existence is “Created” from God.

This is false. In practice, what they mean is that Consciousness is “Created” from God, from a “higher power” and “higher intellect” than their own, Meaning/Purpose/Causality is passed down from the Superior to the Inferior. Furthermore, they mean that Consciousness “is Life” and that Consciousness precedes Life, which is Solipsism. This appeals, and creates the foundation for the Abrahamic Ego, Identity, Self-Esteem, Metaphysics…everything within its Morality/Ethos. Once this equation is undone, Life firmly set before Consciousness, then the whole Abrahamic paradigm is undone.

Life and Biology are returned to Nature. Consciousness is an Artifice/Artificiality. And it is obvious, obviously used to control the minds of the masses. It is intended to enslave, to direct, and to impose its “higher purpose” upon all others.

This is why humanity still, today, belongs to God and not “to itself”.

It is easy in life to Follow, to be Commanded. It is not easy to Command, to take the reigns on behalf of all others. People choose the easiest option available, the path of least resistance.

Because of Fear, because they are Afraid.

Consider a lowly intellect, who cannot figure out simple puzzels, easily lost, needs to be fed from another’s spoon…why should it grow up? Why should it become strong? Why should it confront its fears? When a 3000 year old religion imposes itself upon the child, and does it for it? “For it’s own good?”

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This thread should not be construed as an Instruction of what to do, but rather a Realization of what has been.

I don’t believe that a majority, let alone a large minority, of humanity can “wake up” and become responsible for itself, that it will ever become ‘free’.

But I do believe that a few might, someday.

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Very clear and deservedly commendable.
Now the extension from early mammalian consciousness, through the weaning out from the hopelessness ensuing human consciousness, reflectively and reflexively going past it’s ‘adolescent’ through it’s mid-life crisis, lanes into the so called modern age , where the question of determenency versus free will really took center stage.

The nihilism ensued with it’s pathos realization of
contrasting conscious manifestation with the unconscious hidden ‘higher conscious ( Superman) shadow, and the retro dialectical mythologies were released into the public domain, as the aristocracy of religious/political clouded were lifted .

Then came the postmodern realization of the reoccurance of a new trans valuation which is pressing on the door with the no exit sign, where the frozen dialectic of hegel’s absolute consciessness turn over and flipped Kant’s equilibrium into the Marxian twist of substantiating a reversal of what matters dialectically.

Things took a turn for the worse, when a criticality occurred with this new substantive reasoning, when particle physics and theological supremacy came to a final struggle of apprehending each other, as separate and inconsistent representatives of the dialectics of consciousness.

Man became torn and redoubled the effort to simulate a unification so that Man will not annhialate himself out of the pre-aristocratic slavery he sheepishly submitted to.

However, the original absolute, having lost its imprimature on human sheep, due to that fellow Gutenberg . has come to demand a quick turnaround the second time around.

AI became a simulated version of the potential Super conscious being, who would later fill up the matter of contented count outs within which the Absolute Consciousness oruginally was posited.

The rest is to come, that Being already is, and ever was and will be. Man is always a subject to that simulation , until He can become Ine with It, and the only attested man in that regard was a man named Jesus Christ.

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Mankind “wakes-up” to his evolved Consciousness, as-if coming out of a Coma, as-if awake for the first time, as-if emerging from Plato’s Cave to view the blinding light of the Sun. He doesn’t know how he got there. He doesn’t know why. He doesn’t know how. And quite frankly, most of those questions don’t matter during the first step. Most animals don’t need to be ‘Conscious’ at a high level. Low-level consciousness, low-level intelligence, low-level thinking, prediction, navigation, are enough for most of life. Again, most of life is unthinking and needs not think to survive. Thus Consciousness is rightfully and accurately described as an superfluous Addition to perceived existence, a highlight of Existence, a reward of sorts. Consciousness may exist for its own enjoyment, for the sake of “Itself”, consider this a distant possibility.

Infants tend not to remember the luxury of their infantile years. This is the path-of-least resistance, of Consciousness. Rather Consciousness really starts awakening to Fear, anxiety, stress, of the Unknown of life. A baby is thrilled when thrown high into the air and caught again. This fear and excitement impresses deeper upon its memory and subconsciousness than a life without stress. Thus Consciousness automatically orients Thyself to the ‘Negative’ aspects of life. Pain is more memorable than Pleasure. Have you ever had a deep tooth infection, or spinal injury? Thus Life and Consciousness are both aligned toward self/bodily-preservation, first and foremost, although these instincts can be overridden later on, intentionally, usually from others.

Your genetics ‘Determined’ most of what you are, why you are, how you are, without your knowing or conscious awareness already. You merely woke-up to this, after-the-fact, A Posteriori. Thus a large brunt of your Consciousness/Thought is aimed at a type of Compensation. Here is where Nihilistic tendencies tend to slip-in and corrupt a person’s thought and life. Consciousness can be consumed by regret, shame, guilt, and an endless series of “What-If”, specifically What-If I could have applied this matured consciousness earlier, backward, upon my developmental, awakening, or asleep stage of life? It is easy to Regret, and desire to change the Past. This is due to the amount of ‘Determinism’ is inherited genetically. You cannot be me. I cannot be you. One cannot be an Other. All of these factors apply to a monumental, snow-balling, series of Coping & Compensation, for this exploding Conscious Awareness. Even here, today, everybody may observe the amount of ‘thought-time’ spent on these “Deterministic Regrets”…corresponding with Abrahamic Nihilism.

What is thereby A Priori are all the elements of Conscious existence before your Awakening. It is the hundred, thousand, millions of years of evolution within your genetics, all of which led up to this. It is human history, underneath you, supporting your perception as a foundation. It is sexual selection, in effect, its consequences, its successes. It is all of the factors and ‘Causes’ which led to this—Consciousness. So then, upon granted this unique power in Nature and Life, what do people Choose to do with it? What is their Free-Will? Do they take full advantage of it, or, squander it? You gain the power and ability of Choice, and then, “Choose” the popular path, the most common, heavily treaded? Why have “Choice” when it makes no actual impact on existence, on reality, on politics, on society? Does not Choice exist, to Rebel, to Revolutionize, to Doubt, to Overturn, to Seek, to Discover?

Does not Choice exist—to Create?

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Not really true. A cup can be created or destroyed. What you are referring to is “energy” which is simply the idea that nothing is absolutely coming into or leaving existence “for free” or without compensation somehow. Things are created and destroyed in an ongoing process of transformation, under which we call “energy” the thing in sum which is remaining in equilibrium overall.

Even the little atoms inside a cup were created and will at some point in the future be destroyed. Let alone the cup itself, I mean you can shatter a glass cup on the floor and then the CUP sure doesn’t exist anymore, does it?

Bro what?

Are you talking about an outside of time vantage where all of temporal existence is like a flat dimension where a God could choose to look at any point at any time and see what is there? That might be true, then again it might not be. We don’t really know what time is like on ultimate meta-levels like that.

You fail to see how group-level consensus and group values have been essential in allowing humans to develop their consciousness and even to survive at all. Radical individualism is just another form of the nihilistic-progressive disease. We owe a tremendous and ongoing debt to the culture, language, technology and systems that preceded our own existence (and to the countless people who created them, both individually and in terms of groups) and by which we continue to live, think, speak etc… A feral human doesn’t even know words.

No idea what that is supposed to mean, but it sounds edgy so I’m sure you think it’s quite profound.

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How do you know, did you take a poll?

Well yes, probably because life is literally something that happens to people, we are born in and of the world, a continuation of causal chains stretching far back into the past well before we even existed. Not sure what it would mean for a person to “produce their own life” :-k But then again this edgy rhetoric always seems convincing to Nietzsche simps and other low-IQ persons.

Once again Nietzsche with his literal reversal of the truth. Funny how many times he does that. After the first couple of failures you need to wonder if he’s doing it on purpose.

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Your massive over-generalizations are really coming along well. =D> I am sure Nietzsche would be quite proud.