Thread: A unique View on Awareness

To me awareness takes the form of just any physical sensation within the body. Without these physical sensations that are yielded by complex processes within the body, awareness does not exist. When we are asleep for most of the night, we don't have any awareness at all. Awareness however does not exist through images, sounds, tastes, or smells. Seeing, hearing, tasting, and smelling are all just processes that occur just like any other process in the body. The important thing that matters is the physical sensation that these processes yield. You can not have awareness of an actual process going on inside you. You can only have awareness of it through a physical sensation yielded by the process. Some might say that images, sounds, tastes, and smells are all things you can be aware of, but I disagree. Sight, taste, smell, and hearing are all just processes that occur and then when the process occurs (based on what else is happening in the body), signals will be sent to the place where the body thinks that is important to yield a physical sensation from the said process. To me, most people will yield a higher percentage of physical sensations from things they see or hear in a day than all of the other processes that can yield physical sensations combined. I also believe that every single thing you feel period has to be positive or negative. During a positive physical sensation, you are thriving in what you are doing and you don't question things such as "why am I here" or "life sucks". Even if you do, it is yielding a positive physical sensation and you don't actually feel that way. It doesn't matter what you see, hear, smell, or taste, all that matters is that physical sensation yielded from these processes. We can easily honestly say that the abstractions of positive and negative exist, and I really think that they need more attention, but in a more scientific broken down way. I could also explain why similar things you see, hear, smell, taste, or all the thousands of other processes in the body don't ALWAYS yield positive or negative physical sensations, but that is for another post. The meaning of life is for you to experience a positive physical sensation yielded by one or more complex processes within the body. This is also true for insects, animals, some plants (maybe), and some bacteria (maybe). Next time you feel good, just ask yourself how silly it is to question the meaning of life.