RE: A Speculative Case for Eternal Life
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"You are making big claims based on what you perceive to be the state of the entirety of life that exists..."
That's a mischaracterization of what I did say. I didn't say anything about life, except that some of it demonstrates consciousness. My comments are about consciousness.
a) is speculation.
b) isn't factually correct. I'm not addressing the fundamentals of being a living being. I'm addressing consciousness, and in fact state we have no way of knowing that consciousness is limited to living things, but can only detect it indirectly because some living being take actions that demonstrate it. You're mischaracterizing my statements.
"Consciousness is 'being aware'..."
That's part of it. Consciousness is also a noun, and that's what I am referring to, which is obvious if you read what I've said without bias. A lot of the problem we have with wrapping our heads around consciousness is that we don't even have very good words to discuss it, because we know so little about it.
Our disagreements seem to be caused by bias. You are mischaracterizing my statements to create straw man arguments that you can knock down.
"This includes the understanding that judgement itself is counter productive and holds away right understanding."
You explain your bias here. Also your confusion. How can you understand unless you can judge between what is factual and what is not? Without judgment there is no understanding.
We have different definitions of the words being used.
For me, judgement is a limiting form of thought that skips over depth of reality in order to form a decision on something - which then tends to take hold as if it is fact. Discernment is the replacement for judgement, which holds space open for new thoughts.
consciousness as a noun refers to: "the state of being aware of and able to think, perceive, and experience" - which we typically correlate to 'living'.
unconsciousness also exists.
both are states of the essence of self/god.
in my way of parsing reality, you are grappling with existence and calling it consciousness.
What we call unconsciousness isn't not being aware and able to think. It's simply being non-responsive. It is well proven our minds are active during periods of 'unconsciousness'. A lot of our apparent disagreements are at least exacerbated by the very poor language we use to describe consciousness, likely because we have no idea what it actually is.