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Posted by Roaring Lovely on June 12, 2015 at 12:30pm
The beleif that one's on consciousness is eternal is quite universal amongst people. It may be tempting to think that it is due to the universal fear of death but it is nothing of the sort! It rather due to the way the concept of own's awareness is closely related to the concept of time.The philosopher Thomas Aquinas once said; I know what time is but when I am asked to define it, I am not able. Like many philosophers, Aquinas neaded a breif tour back to kindagarten! There is not such a thing in this world as 'defining things'. Words, we define, things, we point to and name them. Aquinas only neaded to point to a phenomenon and utter 'time' and he would have adequately defined the word 'time'. Definitions are essentiall ostensive in nature. We use a nonostensive definition for pure convenience due to the need for worded communication. So in the following paragraph, I will define the words 'time' and 'consciousness'.Now, I go as per this guide: what if my reader is an ET from andromeda who knows no English, how will I guide him to know what I mean by consciousness? The only way is to make him sleep and then wake and then call the wake state; 'conscious'. Similarly I will tell him that you were asleep at another time and you are awake at another time. So he gets to know what I might mean by 'time'.Consciousness is as much a quale like those others. Let us make some comparisons. Consider the following quales1.)Space as a collection of locations that can be pointed to by the 3 mutually othorgonal axi2.)Rainbow as a collection of colors that can be formed by mixing the 3 primary colors.3.)Time as a colection of different moments4.)Different states of consciousnessThere is something that I want you to notice concerning the quale of time. There is something that it enjoys that is different from space and rainbow. The rainbow can be farther subdivided to 3 other qualia we term them primary colors. Each of those quale is unique in that for instance we can't understand redness in terms of blueness at all in the same way we may understand violetness in terms of redness and blueness. But for 'time' it appears as a unique quale that can't be subdivided into dimensions of any sort. Same case applies to the quale of consciousness.Let me go on to illustrate the symmetry of consciousness and time. When conceptualising, we often understand things in terms of that which the thing in question is not. For such quales as blueness etc we can conceive that which is not blue at the same time albeit at some other place. However, for one's own awareness, there is no such an equivalences. The state of being aware and the state of not being aware must come at two different moments. Of course you can form an idea of awareness and a lack of awareness of another person apart from you but you can't experience both of them in the same way you might experience two different colors at a go. Similarly, we find that we can only experience a series of a single set of nownesses we term 'time'. We have no idea of another set somehow running paralel to this.Another symmetry goes this way: the concepts of locations, moments, stages and states are closely related. Though we may assign states and stages to colors, we can also assign intensities to them. The concept 'color' tends to be symmetrical to concept force, energy etc. However we find no much meaning of intensity of location or intensity of a moment. Same applies to the states of one's own consciouses. The concept of a 'level of consciousness' might be more symmetrical to another location or another moment.On another note, we see that indead consciousness is a quale symmetrical to other qualia. The integration of several things in the same awareness such as to form a set of one's personal experiences is symmetrical to putting several things on the same spatial level, letting several things happen at the same moment, painting several things with the same color etc.CONSCIOUSNESS IS ETERNITY!So I have drawn lots of symmetry enough to intimately link consciousness with time. By principle of bidirectional causality, if time causes consciousness, consciousness causes time. Since all these terms: time, space, consciousness, reality etc are defined by awareness, it is a bit meaningless to talk of these other existences without the existence of awareness. There is no meaning of the word 'reality' apart from what we give it. Therefore some 'reality entirely without us' is a meaningless phrase. The word 'reality' there, like any other word has no meaning.A philosopher named Gotfried Leibniz once said that there are some things we think we have an idea of but in fact we have no such idea. Then he went ahead to give his own example of such things. The example that I give is the idea of a future enternity during which we are not conscious. When we are not conscious, no time pass at all from our point of view. So a state of everlasting death, from once's point of view, tantamounts to what philosophers term it as 'actual infinite' which is impossible. So at some point in future, one must regain one own's consciousness. However long this duration is, it doesn't appear as a duration at all, so awareness is a continuously experienced thing in the whole of future eternity. Don't ask me how!
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