Tuesday Aug 31, 2010
Consciousness Conundrum Redux
Back in the Game
Here’s a repost from several years ago; it always bears fruit:
Today, on the radio, I heard two famous scientists discussing consciousness in clinical terms, and brain research, which was in many ways fascinating.
One, a nobel laureate, said: “Awareness is a form of consciousness.”
While this assessment might sound correct, I would disagree. Awareness is a form of art. You can raise your awareness, but not consciousness. You can’t have a form of consciousness; it is already whole and not open to divisions or categories.
As the Buddha observed: “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
What did you learn today?
