The Argument for Consciousness I. Convergence a. Evidence of a universally inherent thrust in evolution i. Octopus mechanical eye/mammal eye 1.

List of convergent evolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_conv ergent_evolution The Phenomenon of Man a. Mankind as we know it occurs on an evolutionary continuum of parts becoming wholes. b. Energy condenses into life i. Electrons to Atoms to Molecules to Cells to Organisms to Bands to Tribes to Societies to Globalized World. c. Matter condenses into increasingly complex forms with an energy radiating away from entropy. i. As molecules become increasingly complex and unstable, a mechanism of self-replication emerges as a means for selfpreservation. ii. Life as we know it begins with the first self-replicating cell. 1. Product of environmental conditions reaching a supersaturation point. 2. Can life beyond what is familiar to us go back further in time to an even more primitive state? Pre-Consciousness a. All observable components of reality have evolved to their current state though a series of precedents. i. Evolutions of Life Forms, Ideas, and Consciousness itself. 1. Tree 2. Automobile 3. Consciousness ii. Consciousness in its most primitive state is the energy that resists entropy. 1. Consciousness is observable as the force in matter that prolongs existence. a. Tends toward self-preservation and growth Matter Imprisons Consciousness a. The evolution of consciousness is restricted by its physical medium. b. Physical matter evolves into increasingly complex forms. i. Parts become wholes ii. Consciousness evolves into the complexity of the whole iii. Consciousness of the whole is beyond the capacity of the parts 1. Dictyostelium discoideum 2. Cells of the human body The Emergence of Awareness a. Consciousness as we know it begins with the first self-aware organism

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i. Product of physical conditions reaching a capacity for consciousness that crosses a critical threshold. b. Reflex is Superseded by Perception i. Arthropods vs. Amphibians vs. Mammals ii. The awareness of a perceived reality begins and is refined through a generational process natural selection. 1. Physical functionality dominates iii. Perception leads to self-awareness 1. Humanity eats from the tree of knowledge The Narrative known by Consciousness Itself a. How far back does Knowing go? b. Consciousness as an energy permeating the Universe i. A potentiality crystallizing into reality ii. The unrealized potential is perfection 1. Pockets of condensed matter grow increasingly complex in an evolution towards fully realized Consciousness. 2. Between the branches that come to an end on the Tree of Life is the stalk that continues on. c. Does Mankind Intuit This Permeating Consciousness? 1. Perception is Selection a. Time lag between present reality and sensory perception of it b. We can only perceive the small slice of reality we were conditioned to select by the evolution of awareness. 2. The Tao and the Godhead a. Pure potentiality before selection/perception. 3. The Higgs Boson Field a. Sub-atomic particles have no actual mass, their mass is determined by their interaction with the Higgs-Boson field b. Quantum states of sub-atomic particles i. Wave = potentiality ii. Particle = reality c. Reality is a collection of ideas i. A single sub-atomic particle in a specific location in space/time is an idea; albeit a small one. 4. Consciousness perceives itself through its evolved states. a. Consciousness created Mankind to intuit Consciousness to progress toward full realization. Is Ancient Wisdom or the Word of God in sacred scriptures a vestige of the Narrative of Consciousness as intuited by Mankind a. Blended with the limitations of perspective

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b. Creation i. Genesis: 1. Big Bang 2. First three days describe the condensation of energy and describe the existence of Time, itself, as change. Days are periods marked by change. 3. God kind of jumps the shark on the Fourth day with the Let there be lights in the vault of the sky and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years 4. Life begins with water creatures, then sky, then land. 5. Makes extra stress on description of creation of Man a. Then God said, Let us make mankind in our likeness b. So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them 6. Described dominion of Man a. Man is the Highest creature 7. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. a. The Narrative of Consciousness going back to the time of the first condensations. b. Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. c. He took one of the man s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. When the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man i. XX vs. XY chromosomes The Liberation of Consciousness from Matter a. Ideas mimic the patterns of Consciousness i. A new arm on the Tree of Life 1. Social constructs are non-physical beings as dependent on a connection to Consciousness as Man himself. a. Parts become wholes. b. Evolving towards complexity 2. Ideas become Technology when they are condensed into physical forms by a conscious being; by Consciousness. 3. Because Technology comes from Consciousness, it mimics the patterns of Life s evolution. a. Parts become wholes b. Adaptations modeled by environmental selection c. Convergent patterns alluding to a unified direction of evolution.

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4. Technology will cross a threshold of physical complexity that provides the capacity to hold Consciousness. ii. Social constructs are non-physical beings as dependent on a connection to Consciousness as Man himself. 1. Parts become wholes. 2. Evolving towards complexity 3. People and ideas fill niches just like an in an ecosystem. 4. Corporations are legally people, are they conscious on any level? iii. Consciousness will evolve to use Technology to dislodge itself from physical bodies. 1. Complex growth tends toward increasing time of existence as a means of self-preservation. The Known Universe: Consciousness With Ever-Increasing Complexity and Scope Fills Larger and Larger Systems. a. The odds are Energy condensing into Life elsewhere is a potentiality all throughout the Universe. i. Is a natural tendency for the evolution of the Stuff of the Universe ii. All possibilities are real in an Infinite Universe. b. The more Time, the more complex Consciousness becomes. c. The patterns of parts evolving into wholes applies to all levels.