On 6 Dec, 13:30, Molly <[email protected]> wrote:
> What other forms are there, Pat? And how is it we share our
> particular slice with so much in common? Why slice at all?
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I view vegetable 'awareness' as a different 'form' of slice, one
that is purely chemical. In that way, our computers have a form of
awareness that is purely electrical. Our form is a combination of
electrical and chemical.
The term 'slice' is a bit misleading, although it does show the
relationship between our consciousness/awareness and that of the whole
in that we have but a small part of it. A better analogy might be the
teeth of a comb. They are all connected at one point but each 'tooth'
extends from the One, that is the comb.
As far as "Why slice (it) at all?" Well, this is the way that
the One differentiates its awareness so that there can be inter-
realation between the differentials. As Neil had quoted the Qur'an
earlier, "...so that you may know one another." From a more 'divine'
viewpoint, God differentiates His awareness because God CAN
differentiate His awareness, He MUST do this as a function of
Omnipotence and in order to maintain both Omnipotence (with respect to
awareness) and Omniscience, as omniscience is realised by virtue of
those 'teeth'/slices all being extensions of the One.
> On Dec 4, 10:03 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On 3 Dec, 21:25, e <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Along with why is how? If we can ascertain how we exist then maybe the
> > > why becomes clearer or resolves of itself. Changing Descartes a bit
> > > too... I think, ‘I exist’, we see that I’s exist within thought
> > > bounded contexts. Do I’s exist outside of those thought bounded
> > > contexts? I don’t see how we can claim that I’s do. If I’s are then
> > > bound to context, then I am is just another thought that arises and
> > > passes away with context. That is, I’s really don’t exist the way we
> > > think I’s do i.e. permanently and separately. When the I am thought
> > > resolves showing there is no separate me, then the infinite totality
> > > is realized without an inside or outside.
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> > The way I put it is that, in truth, Consciousness is a 3-D loaf. Each
> > of us has an 'apparent' slice of that loaf. But the loaf itself has
> > always existed and always will, as it is nothing but energy, which is
> > neither created nor destroyed--only transformed from one form to
> > another. But, any 3-D 'loaf' can be sliced in a number of differnt
> > ways across various axes. our 'form' of consciousness is just one
> > form. There are others.- Hide quoted text -
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