JustThinking

I would agree in the absence of conciousness being a natural law of the univers and instead being something that evolved with biological life forms. The problem is that there is much evidence that conscious decisions affect what we call matter and also the other way around i.e. the Observer Effect.

The effects on consciousness can be described, but the nature is a totally different beast.

The idea of consiousness is, itself, the very essence of what philosophy is about. A child knows when some one is consious or unconsious, but consiousness itself cannot be measured nor traced due to its philosophical nature. As such, we are unable to define consiousness in concrete terms. This leaves the realm of consiouness solely to be defined by the ideas of philosophers. The first, and very basic, question asked by anyone who is sufficiently self aware is "Why am I here?". This one question is a question that has spanned the entire evolution of man since the moment he was aware of himself. Just as man has evolved, so too has his reasoning and explaination of this seemingly simple question. Throughout our history, the answers to this question have lead to some of the most rediculous superstions to the most organized and largest religions of this era. It is possible, the technological revolution of the late 20th and early 21st century have opened a window to a new prospective. This new prospective should reshape the foundation that was previously set in place by superstion and religion. If religion is wrong, then what is it, exactly, that we are doing here? Let us first consider what religion tells us. Most religions have a simple setup of some omnipotent consciousness managing all of the indavidual consiousnesses. This is an appealing idea becuase we all like to see ourselves as unique indaviduals. The human ego nearly demands it. But what if we were to turn that model literally on its head? To fully understand how that could be possible, we must assume that consiousness is a universal law as fundamental as nature itself. Lets go back to when the universe was nothing and assume that all that exists is an energy feild whith the very basic characteristics of consciouness. That being, an energy feild that is capable of being self aware, but is not aware of it yet and is suspended in nothingness. If we were to put a human consiouness in this situation, it would eventually start to chatter with itself. So if we assume that consiousness is a fundamental law of the universe, then it follows that this void consiouness would also start to communicate with itself in some form. This could be seen as the birth of creativity when rationality collided with irrationality. In essence, it would be the first instance of what we call our internal voice. All consciousness has the desire to verify itself. It is that thing we call ego that drives us to verify that we exist. Assuming that our void consciouness came to the same desire after being able to converse ideas with itself, it can only follow that our void consiousness would try to further its complexity in order to achieve this goal. When this happens in humans, we call it split personallity disorder. If this were to happen to our void consiouness, it would now have another entity to bounce ideas off of so that it could further increase the complexity of its ideas. This may be simillar to an energetic version of celular division without the genetic complexities. As we know, all matter is mostly empty space with very small energy fields moving at very high speed creating what we sense as matter. This is to say, that all matter is merely eneregy in a highly organized state. If we are to assume that our void consiousness is capable of infinate complexity, given a long enough period of time, then it is not out of the realm of possibility that all off existance is merely a collection of subdivisions of that original energy field that held the idea of seeing itself. If we are to extend this same principal of purpose to the humanbeing, then the vastness of the universe becomes much less humbling. In fact, given this same purpose, this could be the most empowering prospective on humanity to date. Given this model, it would mean that humanity, with its self aware consciouness, is the most complex expression of this void consciousnes. Radio telescopes of recent years has given even more compelling evidence to these thoughts. As we map galactic clusters, it is hard for anyone to ignore the simularity of the structure to the synapse of the brain. Possibly, it is that our brains have a striking reseamblance to galactic clusters and not the other way around. Which leads me to another theory that our consciousness is not exclusivly a local phenomenon to the brain. If you were to think of the brain as a structure much like a computer, then it is only a host for data and not the data itself. Birth would be an epicly fast download to the brain and death would be an equaly fast upload back to the universal consciouness. The reason for this would be further complexity. If our brains are mirrors of the basic structure of the universe to host consciousness, then our consciousness itself is nothing but a subdivision of the void consciousness having a unique experience and reporting that experience back to the void consciousness. This would be with the purpose to further understanding and further complexity. If complexities are to continue, I am sure that the end goal is to have a being that is capable of experienceing and understanding every aspect that is the universe. To have a being that is the universes. The only question that remains is once that point is reached, do we start over agian or do we enter a new era of even further complexity. The likes of which we cannot even imagine. These are my thoughts based on my own reasoning with the information I have available to me. They may be right. They may be wrong. But what is important is to convey the possibility because sometime all an idea needs in a new prospective. (pun intended)