Briefly on consciousness

 

That I am introducing this notion of consciousness, so late in this game, indicates , for me that this rather convoluted, meandering, and perhaps overly long blog is coming to an end, which means that it is headed for a conclusion, which is probably something like " conflict and consciousness ".


So, although consciousness can be a rather difficult topic, it is quite fortunate that it has been the subject of some concern for at least 2500 years, through most, or perhaps all, of the various schools, etc, of Buddhist teaching.   This can be traced back to the koan, Mu, which of course has had a very curious effect on our understanding of what we might think of as conscious.


Today of course, we are very concerned with the nature of  consciousness as it relates to " inanimate " type of things.  In other words what we are trying to do is determine if some " inanimate " thing behaves or can be confused with a " living " thing, which of course brings us back to this whole notion of what is a " living " thing.  That brings us back to how we think about " inanimate ".  For example, --- is the wind inanimate or alive?  Kind of a tough question, which is probably best answered   from an individual experience,  or perhaps asking questions like, --- what is the wind ?

And so you can see, that some of these issues become very difficult and very hard to sort out or sort through when you only proceed in a what I might call, a singular chain of logic, because all these notions require some discipline to deal with.  Like --- is logic conscious ?  Well, kind of hard to say one way or the other , but you can see when we dice the world up , in a highly dualistic manner, we are going to end up creating serious --- road blocks --- in our ability to understand things in a really more complete sense.  


So, in conclusion then,, based on  

How geometry created modern physics – with Yang-Hui He


I must say that Leonard Euler, was most likely, a pretty great guy, and we should all be, kind of, grateful for all the work he did do.

    

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