As the title reads: reality is an artifact of perception. The reality that I am speaking of here is the reality perceived through or by the human senses. If one were able to adopt an absolute view, that seemingly solid reality inhabited by humans would be "seen" as a constantly shifting field of interrelated vibratory patterns. This field is holographic in nature. It is conscious. It exists now and only now.
Consciousness did not arise from life. Rather it is the other way around. "Life" is a feature of consciousness along with time, space and matter. It is an effect of human perception. We humans do not live in the universe. The universe lives in us. It is our creation. It is malleable by thought.
The universe is our sandbox. We play with ideas here and reap their consequences. The sandbox is the laboratory of being. We constantly refine our consciousness by shoving eternal concepts around in the sand and inventing new combinations of them. In this way, consciousness evolves toward greater sensitivity and more refined articulation of its essential nature which is loving kindness. Humans are the self-conscious tendrils of all of consciousness. Our job is to allow consciousness to know itself. This is all done for the joy of it and has no purpose beyond experiencing bliss.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Hey Dr Joe
ReplyDeleteI just realized that the 100 monkey principle works because the subconscious pattern of the infinite mind must be replaced in total by another complete pattern. Only a large enough group can supply the emotional content robust enough to survive in infinity and change the shape of solidity.
MN
Love the monkey.
Perception is just a pattern of the mind and that pattern can be changed. We can perceive whatever our pattern dictates. We are not trapped in one mode of perception.
MN
Only a large enough group or an individual with a large enough emotional charge.
ReplyDeleteMN
I think you're on to something here. The idea of the accretion of new ideas or experiences within members of a population until a tipping point is reached is the essence of the hundredth monkey principle. What you have added is the idea that a behavioral program is a module held in the infinite shared aspect of the subconscious mind that can only be replaced by a sufficiently powerful similar module. Since the module's power is supplied by emotion, the contribution of a sizable number of individuals is required. Experimenters have established that the minimum number of individuals within a population needed to demonstrate a consciousness shift is the square root of 1%. That comes from a different context but it may apply.
ReplyDeleteYour speculation that the relative power of the individual emotional charge is relevant to the size of the necessary group is very interesting. It may very well be true. Some of us may be heavy hitters.
In reference to your actual article,I would say that reality is an artifact of CONSCIOUSNESS. Perception would seem to be one of the patterns impressing itself upon the creaking wave of things that exist and is itself an artifact of consciousness not a root cause. Now that I think of it, our specific form of perception may be one of the patterns running in the background,(as content in the subconscious),that can not be attributed to conscious choice or be said to have been filtered through the conscious mind before becoming content in the subconscious.
ReplyDeleteLOVE THE SINGLE MIND.
How many monkeys would it take to change our patterns of perception??????
MN
We have no disagreement here. We are dealing with different uses of the word "reality". In my original posting, I attempted to make the point that the actual world of the senses is shaped by the attributes and limitations of our senses themselves. For instance, we cannot see infrared or hear a bat's shriek. Those are outside the limits of our senses. In the same way, our senses yield an interpretation of vibratory patterns based on their own tunings and limitations. We call that interpretation "reality".
ReplyDeleteYou have said that reality is an artifact of consciousness. Here, you are referring to the ultimate reality that underlies the apparent reality of sensual inputs. I agree but I would express that idea more strongly by saying that consciousness IS reality. It is the ultimate ground from which the universe has bloomed.
How many monkeys would it take to change our patterns of perception? One. One to change my patterns. One to change yours.