Arlo --
[Ham]:
But conscious awareness is not simply recorded data. Being-aware presumes
an organic locus of sensibility --
the individuated self.
[Arlo]
So tell me. According to your well-thought out metaphysics,
how does this "being-aware" or "conscious awareness" come to be embedded
in the organic matter of our neural
synapses? Is it floating in nearby space and somehow latches
onto nearby neural energy? Is it "placed there" deliberately, the way I
might put a can of beer in my fridge?
Is it part of the human organism before the organism develops
a brain? If not, how does the individual organism acquire it? From where
does it acquire it?
As always, Arlo, you demand physiological or evolutionary answers to
metaphysical questions. How and where experienced events are stored in
memory is a question that should be addressed to a neurophysicist. It would
be senseless for me to Google
"memory" in order to quote you a scientific explanation. In an objectively
differentiated reality the central nervous system is the biological
corollary of conscious awareness. It's a construct of Value in the same way
that rocks, trees, and other objects represent man's value-sensibility.
The conscious self is identified with a particular human organism (i.e., the
"being" that is aware), but it is not the organism or any part of it.
"Organic matter" is obviously more "real" to you than the consciousness that
objectivizes it or the primary source that underlies it. When you ask was
it "before" or "after", you force an existential timeline, which presupposes
cause-and-effect. Scientific objectivism is a mental block to understanding
metaphysical reality. Suffice it to say that experiential awareness is a
process that is contiguous with proprietary consciousness. I'm not
interested in chronicling the process; it has been well documented by
geneticists, psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists. As a
philosopher, my focus is on relating the world of appearances to the
absolute source from which all difference is derived.
--Ham
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