First things first, consciousness, the meaning of consciousness is a matter of supreme importance but we can nailed it shut in a most succinct description of say the child developing such. Yes, consciousness is that simple, it is merely an awareness of self, the child recognizing its face for the first time, and the child realizing peer pressure and the realization of such as a consciousness based process. Indeed.
Consciousness as awareness of self makes perfect sense, but what does not make perfect sense is when consciousness is not taken to the next step and that is awareness of others, and through awareness of others a realization of sameness.
Consciousness is for the here and now, it is a real-time operant, it is therefore not something profound though it can have profound implications, the universe, life and everything is based on something that is wholly subconsciousness based and has absolutely no foundations in the immediate present, the recognition of the present is an afterthought, the afterthought when identified, we can call such process consciousness. I am me and I exist. That is consciousness.
Now knowing that you are you, is an amazing discovery because it occurs in the here and now, after you have gone through the mired meshed of birth process, and come out into material existence knowing not an ink of what you were before or where you come from or why you are here. The environment slams into you, the reality doesn’t give you time to think and ponder anything, everything starts unfolding and you just have to deal with it as best as you can with your reactive and intuitive species based actions.
Once you enter the here and now and realize yourself it is because you have come to a comprehension of your relationship to your environment, a mountain climber has a very conscious full-idea of himself in relationship to the mountain. I know who I am in relationship to philosophy, the world definition of self-to-world is a mandatory prescription for self-awareness, to get there you just have to hope that you have enough species-level-subconsciousness to survive before some hunter, epidemic or catastrophe kills you.
When you start to look at yourself with time to ponder you begin to realize the possibility of plastic surgery, that is to say that you can change yourself, that realization is paramount to come to the next more important conclusion, you can change yourself and adapt to meet the constrains of world parameters then it follows that not only can you adapt but that you can also change the environment, change world!
That is a paramount realization because the world is not necessarily made of you or for that matter made of those others that are like you, it is something else, to transform the earth to dig for emeralds, to refine cooper to roast coffee there has to be a consciousness transformation from self to world! Once you can create a bridge between yourself and world that has regular back and forth interaction then you get to another amazing thing, you reach another like you through the medium of world. That other can be another culture, another civilization, another tribe, another person, a nomad, but it is another like you. The discovery of the Americas was a phenomenal demonstration of two worlds coming together through the bridges created by the consciousness of world; today Indians own casinos, go to Harvard and play in the Olympics, the bridge has not only been crossed but it has been narrowed to the point of nullification. The other is not only like you but has the ability to be just like you.
The catalyst to climb into the unknown is to reach others like us, it is to find more like us that have crossed from the other side, from before life, we want to meet them in the here and because we knew them back then, before consciousness in the subconsciousness which propagates these us alls.
Consciousness then is aptly named from the roots of a subconsciousness, a silent awareness, we have always known and been aware of ourselves as coming from one giantess source that comprises us all in some magnificent singularity, from which only a bright whiteness could be seen till the great separation created the multitude of colors which we now consider individuals.
Those that hate gays, once exposed to them as a brother or a sister or a mother come to realize that they are not that different from the rest of us tolerable, and given enough time on this earth anyone might equally realized that the difference between the neocon and the militant left winger ideology are none, and given enough time the two could merge into one; as it is today they are still building the bridge towards each other with a dialectic construction crew that is busy demolishing everything that stands in between them.
Ricardo Rojo
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