CONSCIOUSNESS, MIND AND THE WORLD
A Circle
of Relationship and Understanding Centered in Consciousness and the Phenomena - The Second Circle

1. Exploration of Consciousness and Mind
Experience of the world including experiments and exploration. The idea and concepts. . The Phenomena or Phenomenology: varieties and sub-concepts, words and vocabulary.

 

2. An Individual Has Multiple Centers of Consciousness
Individual consciousness that appears to be one and centralized is, in fact, many…or distributed. Therefore the world, in that it contains a distribution of individuals, has or is a distribution of consciousnesses or awarenesses

Issues
The binding problem…or is it a problem. Binding, attention and memory. Similarity and difference between binding for the individual and for the world. Is there a distinction between awareness and consciousness? Fundamentally, I think not.

 

5. Exploration of the World
Exploration - completes this circle as an ongoing circle of action by placing ideas in the world…and opens up the next circle of Being and the Absolute

In general - transformation of world, ideas and symbols…in which old and new are balanced by stability and process needs…based in a dynamically complete system of common experience

In the present study the consciousness-concept is revised to cover the experience…the “trap” of established meanings and paradigms is difficult to avoid. The revision of the concept of consciousness, in turn, finds world and idea to be of the same kind and their relation to be dynamic

 

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3. The Many Consciousnesses in the World Constitute A Single Consciousness
Although this is in analogy with item 2, this needs to be shown…Demonstration includes generalization and predictive power…and is not merely by argument or proof

Issues
In what sense are the many consciousnesses one? ...Unity of consciousness does not rule out dualism: world/mind…and object/subject. A particular case of dualism: world includes mind.

 

4. The World and Consciousness Are Identical
This is consistent with idealism and materialism…or the absence of a specification of either. In a materialist framework the problem of showing how consciousness, subjectivity arise in matter

In an idealist interpretation, the limit in which consciousness is absent is the material case. This requires a new conceptualization of the idea and re-working of the language of the idea. Idealism, when understood is an excellent approach to ontology, minimizes its hypothetical character... and integrates mind, being, matter, and empiricism.

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