Yeah, that would solve all our problems.
Well, light can do that I hope you know.
Have we no skepticism left for science?
The internet represented by our senses is not consistent with my analogy - internet represents non-local access to information, and our senses can only provide us with local information. Again, our senses are our local disks, drives, memory, cache, etc.
The analogy is rough, but it does shed some light on a few paradigmatic issues regarding consciousness, our brains, our fuzzy experience with space and time – we inconsiderately assume all thoughts originate at some point in time, in some particular brain floating in liquid space. This is characteristic of the severe myopia caused by excessive exposure to academic science - our best thoughts originate from without, as the greatest of our geniuses (including Nietzsche) have often been humble enough to acknowledge.
You’re right, consciousness isn’t ‘everything we know’ - rather ‘everything we can perceive’ or ‘of which we can be aware’
No - it’s the awareness itself. That’s all it is.
agreed, and awareness is timeless and non-local.
No - awareness resides in individuals. It’s very local.
It also resides collectively…
Consciousness is a characteristic of humans, like arms and legs are. We generlaise everything, but we are still talking about conscious individuals.
But you leave us with no internet.
Conscious individuals that collectively share a timeless, fundamental awareness - “primordial unity” if you will.
amor - if you say so.
A -thing or -body either way you’re still saying that it planned everything, therefore it has the ability to plan. To the best of my knowledge that would at least require some form of cognitive abilities i.e. a brain.
The only unique characteristic of human-consciousness is being self-conscious or self-aware if you will, if the self is that which knows yet cannot be known then this may give a hint towards the reason why people want to plaster the universe with it…
Of course it does!
Have’nt read Hume, but I have read Kant, many years ago. I think he was on the right track, but I’m sure he was probably hamstrung by religion, and the science of his day. A lot of people can’t let go of the fact that there is no prime mover.
Yes, Hume had to operate in a Newtonian Universe, and he had to deal with the Watchmaker - a mechanistic conception of physics and metaphysics. And it wasn’t cool to be an atheist.
The single cause easily becomes the Single Cause in such circumstances.
There is a thought in the mind, and then an Awareness of the thought in the mind.
This distinction is a priori, clear and distinct; a subtle mind apprehends its Awareness as prior to thought, is indeed above and behind thought - but one can only experience this from above, in stillness and silence. Time dissolves before a silent mind - be still, see.
Most identify and become hopelessly pre-occupied with their thoughts, but one can step back and become aware of them, even the subtle ones and the ones we fear and choose to ignore - indeed, one can lift oneself above one’s own thoughts.
Nietzsche saw clearly this dichotomy of the mind - it resides at the core of his psychology and spirituality.
They are just two thoughts. Consciousness refers to self-awareness, but it’s not the thought that is aware of the thought, it’s the thinker.
Close, the the thinker is the Will. The Will has an ego of which it can become aware, though his ego stands in opposition to his awareness, as its thoughts effectively cloud awareness. Man is a transient manifestation of opposing forces - Apollonian and Dionysian, the Spirit of Gravity and the Superman, the Devil and the Divine.
the Superman is one who rises above himself.
This is just poetry, amor.
It’s good poetry, and I am thoroughly a Nietzschean. But he is speaking metaphorically.
On that level - sure - I’ll go along with it.
It’s a partial definition, but I’m okay with those, too.
Like I said, Nietzsche’s thought contains a thoroughly spiritual element, centered around the individual - instead of teaching or preaching, Nietzsche lived metaphysics.