[MD] cognitive awareness

[MarshaV]

On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:58 AM, Ham Priday, in the 'now it comes' thread wrote:

> The author set about to equate Reality with Quality by eliminating subjects and objects and defining "experience" as "static quality" in one or more of "four evolutionary divisions" (competing levels).  Nowhere in this thesis is there an epistemology for the locus of conscious experience, except for the Quality from which it is patterned.  Nowhere is there an explanation of the thought process, except for "concepts" which are relegated to an ephemeral "social/intellectual" domain.  Ideas are simply posited as "good" or "bad" concepts, depending upon how well they conform to the alleged intrinsic morality of this evolutionary system.


Hi Ham,

So many times I have wanted to explore this with you, but it is difficult. I do not believe it is something RMP confronts directly, but I can easily relate it to unpatterned experience and static patterns.   Regardless,  I am an introverted explorer and wonder about the flow of consciousness and awareness.

For me the 'flow of consciousness' comes in two flavors.  There is the creative re-membering of static patterns from the past.  And there is the creative projecting of static patterns into a future.  Unless this seems to be address solving a problem, I dismiss most as imaginative story.

There is also an cognitive 'awareness' that is more immediate, and more puzzling. I suppose it is the techniques of mindfulness that brings this type of experience to ones attention.  I have read that the Buddhist define these as six consciousnesses representing the five senses and mind:  I am aware of the thought of a dog.  I am aware of seeing a dog. I am aware of hearing a dog, smelling a dog, feeling a dog, etc.  

There is another type of awareness that seems to be awareness without an 'I' and without an object.   It is impossible to grasp because it is lost the moment one tries.  This is the awareness I have called 'unpatterned experience'.  This is more like rabbit/duck graphic experience that Craig cited, but it's unpatterned/patterned.  

Anyway, there does seem to be a cognitive agent(individual) involved, but not one I would designate a consistent, central controller.  

I don't know if you might have a comment, or that I can agree with such a comment, but I share this interest with you for what it is worth.


Marsha 
















 
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