BEING CONSCIOUS: Part 3 — He's A Ray

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With her revelation about No-thing being Sum-Thing else drifting in and out of her mind, somewhere along the way the whisper of a wild thought pops up, but No-Thing can’t get a fix on it.  You might say she feels it—and then it’s gone.

It’s a fleeting whisper of a thought of an idea about Sum-Thing being something else altogether, but it's elusive and No-Thing can’t quite put her finger on it, so to speak.

Here’s No-Thing playing around with all she feels she is and all she thinks she can be, which is Sum-Thing for sure: but really, No-Thing feels like she's just playing with herself!  Weee!  And how much fun is that really?

Sure, we’ve probably all experienced it at one time or another, but after a while it does tend to get a tad boring.  It’s always more fun having someone else to play with, isn't it?  So perhaps we can understand that after No-Thing’s figured out all she is and thinks she can be, eventually she’s gonna just sort of lay herself back out again, a bit whiny maybe, with an attitude, and go all, ‘What now? I’m bored!’

So No-Thing lies around and lies around, and lies around, and gets... Sum-Thing, but nothing more.  She can be anything remember, but right now she can’t feel being anything else.  Then maybe No-Thing thinks to herself, just to make sure she hasn’t missed anything:

“I Am?”

And she runs through what she knows again. 

BEING CONSCIOUS: Part 2 — I'm A Lie

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Now No-Thing's in and on and any and all the rest, and intrigued to say the least, but No-Thing wants to know more.  The story's only just begun after all.  Every ending is a new beginning.  And... 

BEING CONSCIOUS: Part 1 — Ah, It's Nothing

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How on Earth can we think about consciousness?

How do we know what we know?

Where does awareness come from anyway?

And who decides what’s real?

Such questions have been asked since time immemorial and all we’ve really got to show for it is a bunch of stories about singularities and big bangs, and then more stories about God or the Gods, some rather impenetrable religious ideas we can’t throw a stick at, a few strange psychological ideas, and a great deal of argument about its physicality.  In the end we’re stuck with pretty much a big fat nothing.  So what’s up with that?

Well, what if consciousness comes from nothing—and nothing decides?  How’s that for a strange idea?

NOTHING?

Yep, that certainly is a strange idea.  How can awareness possibly come from nothing?  That’s just plain nuts.  Well now, maybe it is—and maybe it isn’t.  Something from nothing, eh?

Perhaps we should begin with another story.