We are obviously conscious.
But why are we conscious? What purpose does it serve to be "conscious"?
But why are we conscious? What purpose does it serve to be "conscious"?
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Consciousness
- Thread starter The Hammer
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Why does God need or want Love? That seems like projection of what One wants. Not Gods.
I'm not denying the power of Love. But to know Love, creates Hate.
Just like to know Good, creates Evil.
And that doesn't answer the question as to why we are Conscious. We don't need to be Conscious to be loved, or to love. Only to categorize it as "Love".
What is created is Love, to have the ability to Love, the opposite must be a possibility.
Thus hate is not a source, it is but the lack of Love.
Regards Tony
I didn't say it was a source. I said it was a reflection, an inversion of. Remember we "fell" because we have the knowledge of Good and Evil. That is, to know Duality.
For as soon as you label something as beautiful, you make All around it ugly.
rational experiences
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I learnt by being conscious. Humans thinking capability.
Stated by advised observation inability to be conscious in another's human biological life.
Observations stated that human life has a direct purpose of truth first.
First he says is to be conscious to be honest or truthful.
I say he as men caused all of life's problems....not a God.
So I learnt unconditional love owning no explanation is where we came from. But knew we don't own it now.
As although balances exist some were nice some were nasty. As being eaten is in fact nasty.
Light a gas burning nasty status versus immaculate cool night. Another example.
So I don't lie and don't play thesis make believe idealisms. Claiming I am loved when I'm not. I exist wanting to be loved. Know I am not in my placed existence.
Conscious
I saw and was affected by a momentary glimpse of an eternal being. Yep it sure loved me. Yet it owned no meaning in my life where I wasn't being loved by it.
As balances in created creation said so. So I said don't lie to myself either. Consciousness.
Stated by advised observation inability to be conscious in another's human biological life.
Observations stated that human life has a direct purpose of truth first.
First he says is to be conscious to be honest or truthful.
I say he as men caused all of life's problems....not a God.
So I learnt unconditional love owning no explanation is where we came from. But knew we don't own it now.
As although balances exist some were nice some were nasty. As being eaten is in fact nasty.
Light a gas burning nasty status versus immaculate cool night. Another example.
So I don't lie and don't play thesis make believe idealisms. Claiming I am loved when I'm not. I exist wanting to be loved. Know I am not in my placed existence.
Conscious
I saw and was affected by a momentary glimpse of an eternal being. Yep it sure loved me. Yet it owned no meaning in my life where I wasn't being loved by it.
As balances in created creation said so. So I said don't lie to myself either. Consciousness.
It is certainly an intense experience to glimpse eternity momentarily. Love is all there is at that point.
Brian2
Veteran Member
I hear that some people say that we only think we are conscious.
But seriously, which part of us is conscious?
Brian2
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How can we love if we are not conscious?
To know good does not create evil, to know love does not create hate.
Maybe that creates a potential for evil or hate, but does not create hate.
Adam and Eve knew the good (to not eat the fruit) and this created the potential to do the evil, (eat the fruit) but that potential did not have to be fulfilled.
Is there a part of you that isn't conscious?
"To love" is an action. Actions don't need to be done consciously, we act unconsciously all the time.
RestlessSoul
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And most importantly, perhaps, what are we going to do with this miraculous gift? How will we use it, in the short time we are here?
Ella S.
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Consciousness just means wakefulness. If you get hit on the head, faint, or fall asleep, you become unconscious.
We evolved consciousness because it helps us interact with the world around us, allowing us to meet our physical needs and reproduce. Of course, something like a lychen or a moss is capable of doing this without any form of consciousness, but they usually end up at the bottom of the food chain. Our method allows us to become apex predators.
We evolved consciousness because it helps us interact with the world around us, allowing us to meet our physical needs and reproduce. Of course, something like a lychen or a moss is capable of doing this without any form of consciousness, but they usually end up at the bottom of the food chain. Our method allows us to become apex predators.
Brian2
Veteran Member
If I know that I stubbed my toe, does that make my toe conscious or is the conscious part somewhere else?
Brian2
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We can do the same action and one time it might be because of love and another it might be because of our lust and another it might be out of a sense of duty and etc etc. In that respect love can be shown in our actions but the actions aren't necessarily love.
If we have no motive in our actions then they are just actions. Can a machine love or hate even if it might do the same actions that we do?
The mechanism of consciousness operates in the manner that we can be aware of and interact with our environment.
RestlessSoul
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Love is more than an action, it’s a power, a force in it’s own right. It’s the most powerful energy in the universe and without it there would be no universe, for love radiates from god, and God is Love.
Do you mean why are we aware of our self being?
I don't think that we are. Our mind creates a self image and projects all local events as happen to that self image.
We come to identify with that self so our perception is from the position of that image.
IMO, we are a brain walking around in a meat suit. We are not really conscious of being a brain so we are really not "self" aware.
The self is a mirage created by our brain that the brain(us) projects our existence into.
Conscious generally means being aware of one's surrounding which even today's computer systems are capable of.
Self consciousness is an illusion of something we are not which we are aware of.
Why? I'd suppose it enhances our survival chances. We want to protect that self image and come up with creative ways to do that.