Total Consciousness

An Interconnected Life

Chapter-1: Consciousness, (Part-2)

Outline of Article:

• The Fourth Perplexing Question of Consciousness
• The Fifth Perplexing Question of Consciousness
• Thank you

The Fourth Perplexing Question of Consciousness:

What percentage of distribution exists within total consciousness?

     A natural follow up question to ask about my model of consciousness is: what percentages exist within each type of consciousness? At the moment, I don’t believe the percentages are fixed throughout a person’s life span development. The truth of the matter is that all parts of consciousness are responsible for the entire consciousness of a person, at the same time. However, on average, each type of consciousness is assigned or agreed upon to focus on specific, specialized tasks.

     For instance, consider the instantaneous moment of conception, and the initial nine-month human life span development. At this stage of human life span development, it would not make sense to have 20% of a person’s total consciousness be concentrated or allocated within e-consciousness. There’s no need for much exploration. Reasonably, at this point in life span development, perhaps only 1% of total consciousness would be contained within e-consciousness, maybe even less.

     However, as a person develops in life, more and more consciousness is allocated into e-consciousness. This process of consciousness distribution happens, for the most part, to all human beings.

     Notice, motivated reader, that most individuals have limited working recollection of their early stages of life span development, which ranges from: the instantaneous moment of conception, to birth and up to four or five years of age.

     My current approximations for the distribution of percentages of an adult’s total consciousness are, on the average: 10-15% of total consciousness is primarily within e-consciousness; 75-80% of total consciousness is primarily within ava-consciousness; and, 3-5% of total consciousness is primarily within i-consciousness.

     Notice, I keep using primarily. Currently, I believe that greater quantities of consciousness can and do concentrate in one of the lesser concentrated forms of consciousness. One such example may be through sleep, where e-consciousness lowers in concentration of consciousness, allowing for perhaps i-consciousness to use more consciousness.

4. What percentage of distribution exists within total consciousness?

The approximate distribution of percentages within total consciousness is, on the average, for an adult: 10-15% of total consciousness is primarily within e-consciousness; 75-80% of total consciousness is primarily within ava-consciousness; and, 3-5% of total consciousness is primarily within i-consciousness.

The Fifth Perplexing Question of Consciousness:

Which Came First: Evolution or Consciousness?

     After approximately defining total consciousness, and its three main types or orders, I naturally turned to one critical question. Namely, which came first: evolution or consciousness?

     Without a doubt, the question of correct order, with respect to consciousness and evolution is crucial to understanding reality and the universe.

      At present, for whatever reason, the current assumption on this most foundational question of order is believed to be—without much questioning—that evolution came first.

     I adamantly disagree. Given the nature of consciousness, and how I have described it, a more reasonable assumption is that consciousness came first—not evolution. 

     Even if the reader does not accept my definition of total-consciousness, the current understanding states that evolution is a recorded history of functional adaptations across time, space and reality.

      Consider it this way, motivated reader. By most definitions, consciousness involves two principal components: awareness and connectedness to reality. Coincidently, evolution is also entirely dependent on awareness of reality and of connectedness with reality, even if one holds to the dogmatic false axiom of randomness in evolution.

     Not to shock the reader, but, by most definitions of evolution, evolution is a function—or function type—of consciousness. Meaning, evolution is directly dependent on consciousness. Notice, all life on Earth supports the claim that evolution is a function dependent on awareness and connectedness with everything else in reality—a function of at the very least, i-consciousness.

5. Which came first: evolution or consciousness?

Based on the two crucial components of consciousness, evolution is a function that is dependent on consciousness. Hence, consciousness came first before evolution.

Thank You

I appreciate your time in reading my blog post. Next Monday I will upload the next part of Chapter-1: Consciousness, from my unabridged book on metaphysics, Web of Consciousness: An Interconnected Life.