[MD] Emergent Consciousness

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Steve]
I don't see the intellectual level as referring to (populated by) human
consciousnesses but rather by ideas. If you want to define human consciousness
I think you would have to include awareness on all levels as well Dynamic
awareness.

[Arlo]
Whoa, whoa, Steve. I don't see the intellectual level populated by human
consciousness either. I'm only thinking out loud about Platt's claim, and how
Foucault's position seems to support this claim. And, some of the ramifications
of this claim (such as "consciousness" being an emergent property of social
collective activity, or the placement of patterns, such as "The Law of Gravity"
being (in a Foucaultian framework) part of the normalization and
conformity-enforcing structures on the social level).

Like I've said, I consider the "I" and the "collective consciousness" to be
co-constructs at the social level, siding with Einstein's view that the "I" is
an "optical delusion of consciousness" (and, I should point out, his thoughts
about compassion that should be the purpose of human activity. "Our task must
be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature in its beauty." In Pirsig's terms, to "be a part of the world,
and not an enemy of it."

Arlo