Consciousness-1

This topic requires a cautious and thoughtful approach. In recent times, many scientists seem eager to explore this subject, approaching it through scientific methods. This is an impossibility as the scientific methods themselves are contained in consciousness. Thought too is contained in consciousness. What is contained cannot fully describe what contains it.

When you hear scientists say so and so is consciousness, take an important step. Replace the subject with “a part in consciousness.” Understand it as “A part in consciousness says so and so is consciousness.”

Some ask whether consciousness is an illusion or even say that it is illusion. We ask then to whom is consciousness an illusion? If the answer is to consciousness then we ask how does itself appear for itself as illusion? Saying consciousness is an illusion leads to contradiction. Anything else can be if there is anything else apart from consciousness but consciousness cannot be an illusion.

Some say one can upload one’s consciousness into a computer. That cannot be. There is consciousness but not yours to upload or download. To do that you have to step outside of it. But you have no other ground than consciousness. Ask your self who is calling consciousness mine. None other than consciousness itself. For it alone is and only consciousness can say mine. You can upload your thought but your thought is not consciousness but of consciousness.

The party that is portrayed as the subject is a part of what is portrayed as the object- i.e. consciousness. The subject is not independent of the object of investigation and vice versa. In fact, consciousness is playing the role of both the subject and the object. The investigation cannot result in an objective truth. Consciousness is undefinable. There is nothing outside itself to define it. Defining is an act in consciousness, and the definition is contained in consciousness. You cannot step outside of consciousness to define it. You cannot limit it. You are part of it and can only be aware of it. In fact it is consciousness that is aware of itself. The approach to consciousness has to be through negation; i.e., finding out what it is not rather than what it is.

10.12.2024

Last updated 04.01.2025