Thursday, August 19, 2010
Consciousness: Science vs. Philosophy vs. Intuition
If Consciousness is essential and on a par with the most fundamental of components of our universe, then what can possibly measure, quantify, confine, or precisely predict its expression, either on any particular level or at holistic level? How can one possibly apprehend any ultimate attribute of consciousness, except upon rational intuition or emotional empathy? How can consciousness be explicated in any way that is scientific or completely based in measurable or statistically reliable empiricism as applied to any particular situation? Is Consciousness, at holistic level, the unmeasurable "thing in itself?"
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If consciousness is only byproduct of interacting charge exchanges between synapses withiin a receiver brain or cell organism, then such byproduct is already determined at or before the time of each such charge exchange. In the case, each subsequent exchange would be determined by the receiver state of the system or organism from each next preceding state. The quality of consciousness (and any unfolding meaning or consistency thereof) would be mere acausal byproduct, so the notion goes.
If true, it would seem that each brain (or stimulus-response system) should be experiencing "choices" before its mind is even aware of it. Actually, that may well be the case. But if so, what is the deeper indication begged by that? Is not the deeper indication this: that whatever it is that accounts for consciousness does not abide solely in disparate individuals? Must not consciousness as we experience it abide as a result of an interacting feedback communication between a holistic field and the particulars and perspectives that condense from it? Must not consciousness be a fundament of reality?
As to any consistent quality of meaning that unfolds in respect of such consant and continuous feedback between the whole and its parts, why should that be the case ... unless the field itself somehow "cares" to meaningfully communicate, however immeasurably, with our consciousness?
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