Lacewing wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 3:48 pm
There might be various ways of looking at it. Please excuse me if I'm not wrapping my head around your intended meaning sufficiently as I attempt to respond.
There are different levels/states of consciousness.
There are different kinds of truth.
It is possible to be conscious and not think oneself knows the truth.
It is possible to think oneself knows the truth while not being fully conscious.
The 'totality of experience' is likely just as imaginary as claiming to know 'ultimate truth'. Do we know who we are or what this is? All human words and concepts are part of the human dream, without any ultimate distinction. We use them here, and there are lots of ways to use them.
- I read all of yours, even that last paragraph. It’s only fair that you read all of mine, which of course requires more time and attention than the ol' hee haw because it says more, so the extra reading is the price you must pay to practice equity fairness.
- By definition, the totality of experiences includes unknown experiences, experienced while unconscious. The totality of experiences would also include memory of experience as proof to consciousness that the experience actually happened.
- When actually experiencing consciousness then reality feels heightened, such as when flirting with death of the body. Folks may experience this as dreamlike, for the experience of time and effort is altered from what can become a routine and habitual zombie dance.
- Memories disappear, which reduces past experience from the totality of experience, while actual new experiences add to the totality of experience. However, past experience without memory can be inferred by its effect upon the body.
- You are not conscious of unknown experiences, but they can be inferred.
- Unknown experiences are what happens to the body when you are not conscious of the body.
- For example, a college student in a frat house may awaken one morning with magic-marker graffiti on his face, as the result of a body experience that occurred without the participation of consciousness.
- If it’s a naïve young woman who wandered into the party, she could start the inferring when she realizes she has a surprise bun in the oven, or when she sees surprise pictures.
- For example, a Las Vegas vacationer may awaken after a body experience of losing a front tooth, an experience that happened without the participation of his consciousness. He may also find a clucking chicken wandering by, and a literal tiger in the bedroom.
- For example, a sleepwalker may take a stroll on a rooftop then go back to bed without having had the consciouss experience of the walk, although the body had the experience, so that’s an unknown experience included in the totality of consciousness.
- There are medicines used in the operating room that will erase memory of the operation experience, i.e. pain, upon the body. This is helpful just in case one remains conscious during the operation while the body and its voice energy that yells
ouch, is paralyzed, which is just one more worry one should be conscious of before going under the knife.
- Have you ever had an operation? Think back. What
really happened?