Are you conscious?

[Robert L. Vaessen]

Rob -

I agree. I believe that 'we' are consciousness. But I also 
believe that a physical world exists. THere are limitations on 
our ability (as a consciousness) to experience this physical 
reality.

We can only visit certain nodes. The nodes along our probability 
path are consciously selected by us, but influenced by the 
limitations imposed upon our consciousness. We are not free to 
select any node in the probability path. Our choices are 
restricted by these laws (physics).

This 'Concept' of time is not what binds us. Time is a 
rationalization of the way in which we experience nodes 
(instantaneous nows of reality). We experience reality (the 
nodes along our probability path) in a linear, sequential 
fashion, and interpret (an aspect of) that method of experience 
as constituting a passage of 'Time'.

Other laws (physical laws) bind us to our probability path. 
There are laws which restrict the nodes that we can visit. These 
laws limit the order, direction, and rate of the nodes that we 
visit. Our struggle is to determine what all the laws are.

Perhaps we will someday transcend these physical limitations.

- Robert



On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 06:43 , Rob Garrity wrote:

> Considering that we are reduced to mere consciousness, a 
> 'concept' as Pat
> lays out can be pretty strong medicine. No wonder we are bound by it...
>
> And one more thing.
>
> I don't believe in entropy,
>
> Seems you gotta have it when you don't have infinities.
>
> The totality of nothingness is nothing to me and I will have 
> none of it!