StoneHappyMonday
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What is etsy? Sounds like I need to know. Someone inform/PM me. Kthx.
What is etsy? Sounds like I need to know. Someone inform/PM me. Kthx.
I dont believe consciousness resides in the brain - is one brain cell consicous ?, two?, 100? 10000? - I think that we use the body as a vessel which after all completely changes every seven years due to cell regeneration
I dont believe consciousness resides in the brain - is one brain cell consicous ?, two?, 100? 10000? - I think that we use the body as a vessel which after all completely changes every seven years due to cell regeneration so your a different 'person' every seven years. Matter can not be created or destroyed so our bodies turn in to another form of matter and our consciouness goes on to another plane of existence (of which there are infinite ones).
I remember one particularly strong and insightful trip where it became clear that everything is connected from a grain of sand to a mountain to a man and that connection never changes where ever 'you' reside.
Sorry this is something I should spend alot more time and words to explain but this is probably not the right place to do it : )
Oh and talking of black - one of my closest i came to dieing was when i od'd and I had the black tunnel effect closing in around me and I knew if it went past the pinprick of light i could see i would die - I fought hard as hell and managed to keep the light - it was a truely phychic battle that for me lasted hours but in fact was only 2-3 minutes long.
My missis had 3 labial, a clitoral and both nipples pierced...then we had kids : (
I dont believe consciousness resides in the brain - is one brain cell consicous ?, two?, 100? 10000? - I think that we use the body as a vessel which after all completely changes every seven years due to cell regeneration so your a different 'person' every seven years. Matter can not be created or destroyed so our bodies turn in to another form of matter and our consciouness goes on to another plane of existence (of which there are infinite ones).
I remember one particularly strong and insightful trip where it became clear that everything is connected from a grain of sand to a mountain to a man and that connection never changes where ever 'you' reside.
Sorry this is something I should spend alot more time and words to explain but this is probably not the right place to do it : )
Oh and talking of black - one of my closest i came to dieing was when i od'd and I had the black tunnel effect closing in around me and I knew if it went past the pinprick of light i could see i would die - I fought hard as hell and managed to keep the light - it was a truely phychic battle that for me lasted hours but in fact was only 2-3 minutes long.
I dont believe consciousness resides in the brain - is one brain cell consicous ?, two?, 100? 10000? - I think that we use the body as a vessel which after all completely changes every seven years due to cell regeneration so your a different 'person' every seven years. Matter can not be created or destroyed so our bodies turn in to another form of matter and our consciouness goes on to another plane of existence (of which there are infinite ones).
I remember one particularly strong and insightful trip where it became clear that everything is connected from a grain of sand to a mountain to a man and that connection never changes where ever 'you' reside.
Sorry this is something I should spend alot more time and words to explain but this is probably not the right place to do it : )
Oh and talking of black - one of my closest i came to dieing was when i od'd and I had the black tunnel effect closing in around me and I knew if it went past the pinprick of light i could see i would die - I fought hard as hell and managed to keep the light - it was a truely phychic battle that for me lasted hours but in fact was only 2-3 minutes long.
What if a cell is conscious in a simple way (in that it chemically senses its environment and reacts to it, or 'decides') and that our consciousness is an emergent property of trillions of those cells acting together - the same way that ants in an ant colony individually follow a few simple chemical rules with no central control and yet when enough do this at once complex behaviours 'emerge' and they become a 'superorganism'; ant colonies can make quite complex 'decisions' like how to efficiently transport food, when to move nest, crossing rivers, even basic agriculture. In the same way maybe each cell acts individually constrained by its own chemical rules but the dynamic collective action of all cells allows higher level behaviours to emerge; and within the specific dense networks of the neural cells, even more complex behaviours/systems could emerge, even maybe a sense of self or 'self-loop'. This is a (rough) description of how the science of complexity and self-organising systems may look at these things.
The related idea of autopoiesis says that the cell shouldn't be thought of as a physical thing so much as a process or pattern of organisation through which matter flows, and which creates its own structure (autopoiesis means 'self making') - life is defined as this self-organising dynamic pattern of flow (whather at the level of cell organ or organism).
I'm not sure if i 'feel' those interpretations more than yours (or even if they contradict each other) - though i'm with you on the eveything's connected stuff. I've felt everything you described on some trips; though i've also felt like i could sense my emergent consciousness dissolve into cellular awareness on pcp (maybe it's all being on drugs and reality's boring -hope not though
(weird thread to chat about this)
Hello friends. Today I have been mainly acting the prat and climbing temples.