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Consciousness

Living With Three Minds

Consciousness, as a word, can refer to simply being awake. It can furthermore refer to being aware. Indeed, it can refer to being aware of being aware. When we dream, we can be aware, and at times, we can even be aware that we are aware. We can be aware that we may be dreaming. Yet if living matters more than dreaming, then being aware, or being aware of being aware, is not full fledged consciousness. What does it mean to be fully conscious?

Consciousness, in the sense of cognizance, willfulness, deliberateness, mindfulness, is one's awareness of one's awareness of one's awareness. The interplay of these three levels of awareness - answering, questioning, investigating - accounts for our experience of the lives we live. We unconsciously answer what we know, we consciously question what we don't, and we investigate the difference. We live with three minds, in dialogue, identifying with each, as braids in a thread. This is what I will show...

Yet like fish in the water, or birds in the air, or worms in the ground, or humans in language, we sense what's there but not what's not. Take a fish out of water, take a human out of language, that is the act of consciousness. Language makes us aware of our awareness, and consciousness makes us aware of language. We humans share language. Can we share consciousness?

What is the point of consciousness.

We find ourselves in an evolutionary journey that may lead to heaven or hell on earth. More importantly, each of us finds ourselves in

Two streams of consciousness.

• commentary, director's cut, play-by-play, chatter box, monkey mind

Are these two streams the basis for memory?

Removing prejudices, removing preconceptions, abstract void.