What Consciousness Is

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How time and consciousness are related…Future is anything outside of consciousness. If the future is now, then it is not the future but the now. If the consciousness is in the future it is not the future but now. Consciousness is the moment of time we are in. Consciousness is time 0 T (Time.)

There is a vast amount of information. If that information is conscious, it is in time 0 T. If the time is 0 T, then anything within that time is naturally conscious. If the information is in the future, it is not yet conscious. Therefore it is >0 T. If the future is imagined, it exists, but it is not the future, it is the present, and therefore conscious. Accuracy of projections are determined by a memory analysis system, if the memory matches the present it is considered that the past analysis was correct and from there calibration of analysis procedures continues.

There is not really much difference between past and future. Future is simply that which consciousness is not. Once it ceases to be future it is conscious, by definition. Past and future are not really real, since they are not part of consciousness, by definition. If a memory is part of consciousness it is not part of the past, and is part of 0 T. Therefore legitimacy of the memory can only be assumed. Timelines based on AD and BC are in relation to projected things and itself, not 0 T reality, and as such confuse understanding of Time and human thinking. Thinking about the human body also may limit understanding of Time, because the human body’s path of function is represented as a linear line in relation to its longevity compared to the longevity of transient things around it, such as the transience and constant movement of outside things in the relation to the persistence of the first person worldview. So it may seem that the perception of the human body is a hinderance to greater understanding because it has such defined form, similar to the illusion of how a car is a machine distinct and more formed compared to the rest of the world and the illusion that free will is outside of causality is a hinderance much like the perception of the body.

So litterally consciousness is whatever information is at 0 T. Any information outside of 0 T is part of the past or future, and is therefore not conscious. Litterally the only difference between now and the future, is that the future is not conscious. And litterally all you have to do to make the future the now, is to make it conscious. From looking at life from this angle you see the entire world of numerical roller coaster train tracks.
When viewing life like this, perhaps it is possible to plot the paths of rebirth and unviel the fabric of time, which is not straight like a rigid line but all over the place and overlapping like a roller coaster.

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Experience is in the first party [the observer], information about the world is delayed and yet informs the experience. The now moment is thus stretched as you also say, and the experience [which is also a reality] is singular. Metaphorically the consciousness is like a glow rather than a sphere or a point, otherwise there is no way to resolve the maths of the multiple into the singular moment.

Consciousness also has an area it is not conscious of, where it collects information from the brain ~ a kind of sub-conscious of consciousness if you will. perhaps like a recording functionality.

Then we can ask questions about all qualia and their physical counterparts that change them too. Eventually we can i think go through everything we think consciousness is, and find that it is not that, but is something which can make utility of said thing [colour, music, tactile sensation etc].

Consciousness for me is as elusive as eternity.

…but if you understand eternity, you will understand the seat of consciousness and of our subjectivity. imho.

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Kant claimed that space is an apriori construct of the mind, not something existing outside of the mind, in some objective, external world.
Makes sense, even though our natural disposition is to think of time existing somewhere ‘out-there’. Time and experience/consciousness are inextricable.

The past is a memory of an experience, which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again ; the future is a thought/imagination of what has not existed yet, but will come to pass.

The present (now) is the synthesis of the past and future.

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I had a dream that told me consciousness is a gravity entity, sort of like a black hole, where thoughts are trapped inside of. It proved to me why but I can’t remember the proof.

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My version:
Consciousness is the faculty of Remote Recognition.

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sounds like a solution. things generally have properties of attraction, so why wouldn’t consciousness be the same!

if we start from a fertilised egg, the observer is transplanted through incarnations each embodying the cells of the mass as it grows. this would leave a kind of gravity-like nature to the disembodied observer I think. a bit like a sphere, and exactly like how we experience it! …it being >the experiencer< [observer].

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