Consciousness | Earthwalking

The great thing about our consciousness is that nobody really understands it at all. Neuroscientists have been unable to identify any specific brain structure or location that corresponds to whatever is generating consciousness. We have, however, learned to facilitate alternative states of consciousness, and we’ve learned how to shut it off with anesthesia, but we’re left wondering just what composes it. And where does it go when we sleep? Or when we die?

This has left room for scientists, philosophers and spiritualists to delve into great thought experiments of just where our little particles of awareness come from and if they are really our eternal souls. That speck of divinity in all of us.

Arguments go further about the potential ego-identities of our consciousness and if they can migrate from one corporal form to another. But before getting too abstract, I want to bounce back to one of the scientific theories that has gained a bit more traction recently.

Orchestrated objective reduction.

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Consciousness, Emotions, and EMFs

H. Stearley at Earthwalking

I’m reviving this post as a prelude the next that will address an old-new theory of consciousness, which as many of you know is one of my favorite subjects. This piece is a bit long at 1500 words or an 8-10 minute read. I know, it’s a lot of time and attention in a busy world of doom scrolling, but hey, you might find it a fun brainteaser.

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A previous post of mine, which briefly touched on the symbolism of the Tower of Babylon, got me to thinking more about how humans seem to like to convey human attributes onto the Gods they believe govern their existence in the physical plane and the afterlife. (This statement, of course, presumes there is both a limited physical and eternal Spiritual existence for us.) And, this train of thought led me down the path of pondering just what are emotions, what are thoughts, and what is consciousness???

Three questions get three question marks.

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