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tama

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17. systems within systems
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 06:14 AM
Feb 2013

I was thinking about that in sleep and half-sleep. Mental images within mental images, thoughts within thoughts... as consciousness happens as thoughts about thoughts, it's movement, energy, jumps between energy levels. So in that sense, a quantum jump of electron inside atom is rudimentary form of consciousness(?) - but what would be the content of that conscious experience???. The limit of the aboutness of consciouss thought as physical thought would be the same finite resolution measurement as generally. Snapshot limit of each content of moment of consciousness would be finite, but the evolutionary aspect and potential would not necessarily be finite.

I'll use word 'awareness' differently from the wiki article, where it's used in similar sense of consciousness described above. Conscious experience is constantly moving from content to content, it can't be still. Awareness which enables also implicit learning need not be and as shown, can be unconscious, without conscious report and narrative. So awareness could be still zero-energy state whole body experience, without trying to consciously define "whole-body" but taking that term as symbolic relation between part and whole.

In that sense still awareness would not be adding anything to the system or removing anything from it, unlike consciousness which moves like ouroboros, snake eating it's own tail, measuring previous (or some other) state as current state, and can contain and measure this state only by jumping to create another state.

So in that sense energetic consciousness has inherent limiting invalidities, which are not inherent in still zero-energy state awareness.

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