Mind Ecology

Let's get our facts straight

2008-03-27T18:42:00.000-07:00

I got ahead of myself, how about this:

Laws of Existence (as far as we can tell)
1. I am: Consciousness; Awareness
2. There is something: Existence
3. We are something: we call it Life
4. Lifeforms reproduce: Regeneration
5. Lifeforms die: Renewal
6. There is order: Meaning
7. There is direction: Will

Laws of Human Existence (as far as we know)
1. I am: self-awareness; Knowledge
2. I crave contact: interaction; Confirmation
3. I was born, I live, and will die alone: Isolation
4. I crave communion: Reproduction
5. I will die one day: Death
6. I crave meaning, structure: Belief
7. I am responsible for my condition: Freedom

Will to Awareness

2008-03-26T14:11:00.000-07:00

So here are some starting points:

● Every organism, with its unique cognitive abilities, has a distinct perception of the universe; lives a singular, subjective reality.
● By the laws of reproduction and death, natural selection yields organisms with increasing cognizance of the universe, and so, through evolving lifeforms, life garners awareness and consciousness unfolds.
● Every living being is a shot at perceiving, conceiving the cosmos.
● Brain and body (central (brain and spinal cord) and peripheral (body) nervous systems) are the instrument by which consciousness takes form and perceives the cosmos.
● There is no objective reality; all reality is subjective; there are numerous realities. What we call objectivity is nothing more than the intersubjective agreement of the species, the operational plane of reality of the lifeform.
● If there is no objective reality, no existence outside experience, perception is creation.
● The phenomenon of Life is the Will to Awareness; the cosmos conceiving itself.

So what?

Cosmic Ethics

Order :	Life (Awareness)> - -	- - - - - <Death
Knowledge	love, learn, teach, read, share, think	lie, cheat, censor, impose, murder
Reproduction	love, nurture, provide, educate, sex	lust, jealousy, hurting children, murder
Survival	love, eat, drink, sleep, work	gluttony, greed, suicide, murder

Existential Angst

2008-03-23T22:48:00.000-07:00

What is Life? Why are we here?
The questions that have troubled humanity forever lie unanswered.

We go through life with a vague notion of our answer, our belief, but try not to pick at the foundations of our worldview too much. For most of us it comes from Religion, and lately, Science has all the answers for Atheists--either way, we get it from somebody else, an authority which we hope has a better idea of the mysteries that await a restless mind.
But we forget Science is only a way to find out about the physical world, the external--it has been so all along! It can't hope to approach the realm of Ethics, of Spirituality, for who cares when the big bang happened if I can't find joy in my life?
As for Religion, how can we settle for these old stories when the prophets lived millenia ago? They had no idea about the complexities of life in the modern world. And most importantly, they had nearly no knowledge of the world compared to our specialists of the Information Age. We now hold the entirety of human knowledge and achievement at our fingertips. Just google it.
But the real questions, the ones that matter, where can we find answers that work for us? With all this technology and information, should we not by now have a better idea of matters of the spirit, the internal, the eternal?

We know all about how Life advanced to our current state. But that doesn't answer the why. Even Religion only provides a framework, a belief system for our scary human lives, but does not give us the reason for existence. The matter might simply be too big for a mere human to comprehend, some say, but human consciousness is expanding, and more and more we shall grasp the Truth.