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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually like the sentiment expressed in 5:51. I would like to hear more of what you exactly mean by consciousness. Is that love and truth, too? Does every being (human or animal or whatever is out there) interpret it differently? Are these unconscious interpretations (or even conscious ones--more scary even, like the religious extremists out there) the cause of war, famine, disaster, murder that some like to "blame" on God?[/quote]

By consciousness I mean awareness and the ability to purposefully interact with other conscious and unconscious things.  Take a rock, for example.  A rock is composed of atoms just like everything else, and so it is essentially a conglomeration of electromagnetic forces that keep it together.  But your typical rock doesn't have properties that render it especially capable of generating or conducting, or even reacting to electricity.  In my view, consciousness is a field that permeates the universe (a fifth field for those of you who study quantum field dynamics), and a rock therefore has consciousness properties just like it has electromagnetic properties.  Though like electricity a rock appears to lack properties that make it especially capable of actually thinking.  Humans, on the other hand, have a highly developed consicousnes using machine that is their brains.

There is some evidence of what I call the consciousness field.  Take for example, the fact that IQ test scores administered to children have steadily risen since they first started being systematically administered.  Are kids getting smarter, or are we somehow learning as a group how to take IQ tests?  [/quote]

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