Thread: conciousness

Moved to Inner Sanctum - not directly related to dreaming.

Interesting notion. Are we consciousness that has a body? A body that has consciousness? or are the two inseparable and inextricably intertwined? Like a bell and it's tone... can one exist without the other? Does the bell HAVE to exist in order for the tone to exist? Can the light exist without a source (sun, light bulb, flame etc)?

... Or is it more like the light is there... the sound is there... and we're the eyes and ears that are affected by it?

In the past I've always been of the opinion that consciousness is like the light... it requires a light bulb (physical body) and an electrical current (electricity in the brain/nervous system) in order to exist. I think thats the standard materialist viewpoint. Now I'm not so sure....

I think consciousness could be as fundamental to our universe as matter and energy. Something that always has existed, and something that is always trying to learn and make sense of the information that it is given. Once an organism evolves to a certain complexity it can begin to host this consciousness, and as it grows more and more complex it can become aware of itself.

I believe that our brain creates the illusion of individuality and the ego purely for evolutionary purposes, and we become separated from each other because we're given a name at birth and we live in a very egotistic society that separates us even further from that oneness.

When we die, we lose the ego and sense of individuality and return to being one with everything again.

I think that consciousness is more fundamental than energy and matter, and is the source of energy and matter. But unlike energy and matter, it is infinite, kind of because it is nothingness. It is the very ground of being and the space of all dimensions. Conscience is something that is cleared.