When we talk about a Bp, relating to consciousness is that we are making an assumption about what a proposition is. In fact, if we look closely, a proposition can only be another level of B. p is really nothing but a group of sub-personal Beliefs (logarithmically nested as B^n) which we are arbitrarily considered as a given condition...but there is no given condition in actual experience. All experiences are contingent upon what the experiencer is capable of receiving or interacting with.
Any proposition that can be named relies on some pre-existing context (which is sensed or makes sense). The problem with applying Doxastic models to consciousness is not only that it amputates the foundations of awareness, but that the fact of the amputation will be hidden by the results. In Baudrillard's terms, this is a stage 3 simulacrum, (stage one = a true reflection, stage two = a perversion of the truth, stage three = a perversion which pretends not to be a perversion). The third stage masks the absence of a profound reality, where the > simulacrum *pretends* to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no > original. Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no > representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as > things which they have no relationship to. Baudrillard calls this the > "order of sorcery", a regime of > semantic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics>algebra where all human > meaning is conjured artificially to appear as a > reference to the (increasingly) hermetic truth. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation This is made more important by the understanding that sense or awareness is the source of authenticity itself. This means that there can be no tolerance for any stage of simulation beyond 1. In my hypotheses, I am always trying to get at the 1 stage for that reason, because consciousness or experience, by definition, has no substitute. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
