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After 2001: Our Neotech World



The bicameral mind invented such life-sustaining tools as language, numbers, the wheel, and the ship in its critical pursuit for survival. It was indeed a remarkably intelligent and ingenious cognitive system, yet there was no fundamental difference between it and the mind of anthropoid apes or porpoises in their automaticity. They differed in terms not of quality (automaticity vs. non-automaticity) but of quantity or degree of intelligence arising from their evolutionary/biological differences. Around 1000 B.C. when human society evolved and became too complex for the bicameral mind to handle, it made its greatest invention, at the cost of its own continuance, in order for the human organism as a whole to survive: that invention was consciousness. Toward the end of the second millennium B.C., the bicameral world saw a dramatic increase in commerce. And the laws of commerce/business began to take over the laws of nature, thereby pushing bicameral men and women to a complete cognitive breakthrough -- to a quantum leap into an entirely new mode of cognition. Through that commerce/business initiated cognitive breakthrough, consciousness was born.

Consciousness is the unicameral mind, as it were. Speaking physically, it is the new unified communication network within the brain whereby two hemispheres function synergistically to create a higher order of operation which is self-referential and introspective. Speaking metaphysically, it is the new integrated inventorying of reality in abstract concepts that organizes myriad facts of experience in accordance with conceptually identified logic. In addition, consciousness is an operative modality of the brain or the mind which is inherently non-automatic. That is, there is nothing in nature that causes consciousness to operate automatically.

Consciousness is the causative factor relative to its own existence. There is nothing in existence that can make an individual conscious but his own act of being conscious. Consciousness exists as an entelechy; when it exists it exists in its full manifestation, and when it exists not it exists not at all. That means consciousness never evolves. It is an individual's very act of being conscious (of something) that brings consciousness into being with its utter totality. Thus, in reality, when one is conscious, he is fully conscious with nothing missing and nowhere to evolve.

In the beginning, however, consciousness sought to operate within the lost matrix of the bicameral mind, that is, consciousness made the entire inventory of brain-stored information emulate the dominant hemisphere of the bicameral mind. Consciousness operating in the emulated bicameral modality is perceptivity-centered consciousness. It is when consciousness developed a sufficiently integrated conceptual knowledge internally that consciousness made the shift from the subjective to the objective and became aware of reality, objective and in essence abstract. Consciousness operating in the context of abstract and objective reality is conceptuality-centered consciousness.

Reality in the final analysis, reality in a fully integrated epistemological context, is abstraction. It is the aggregate of abstract principles that are completely independent of any particular observer and his experience, and as such reality is objective. Furthermore, abstract principles by nature exist independent of time, and as such reality is eternal. And when reality is cognized by consciousness, it exists in the form of concepts. However, since it exists in the form of concepts, consciousness can subjectively create or simulate "reality" without ever objectively conceiving, comprehending, or identifying reality as such. This inherent proclivity of consciousness to create, simulate, or make up "reality" is mysticism. Mysticism is the epistemological disease of consciousness to confine itself in the perceptivity-centered modality (the emulated bicameral modality), in subjectivity, while fabricating or making up non-existing, illusory "realities".



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