Conciousness as It Is

Consciousness is the superimposition of the motherly giver, and the offspring of each personal reality. It exists, though not tangible to us, in an abstract plane in an abstract state; simultaneously breathing and being the air itself. It perpetually fuels off that which it creates. For consciousness to exist, there must be a force of minds capable of complex understanding to establish the concept. Despite the clear prerequisites, it is as though the human brain has created itself with no previous model or guide. To do this, the perceptual organ of all internal comprehension has established itself and an understanding of what it means to be an entity by collapsing in from the obscure, removing all methodical doubt and creating the adamant notion:

I think, therefore I am.

What is this dimensional rift of consciousness? How does it move throughout the known realities of conceptualization, creating understanding where there is an absence? What grand schism banishes the mind from looking into this other world and seeing the birthplace of abstract creation?

Take yourself to be a slab of granite at the bottom of a vast ocean. There you idle for an eternity, only moved through the will of the environment and not by your own enforced decision. You do not think, you do not perceive, and all around you exists an all powerful fluid. It moves through your infinitesimal pores and rips away at equally invisible bodily chunks over the course of many epochs. The water within this endless ocean is representative of how consciousness exists within reality, depicted as a tangibility. Returning to your journey as a stone, understand that the water flows all around and within you, but fails to connect with anything that is dependent on the water being there. This abstract consciousness fuel needs an established consciousness receptor. A stone does not need to drink water.

Let us take the next step in animacy; perceive yourself to be a fish. Encoded with directions and a handful of understandings obtained through learned behaviours, you are near the foundations of the elaborate tower containing the extended levels and layers of consciousness. Being near the bottom, you need the water to flow into you, but you fail to truly know what the water is. The water is able to fuel your gills with the extracted oxygen to help continue your life, but that concept is impossible for you to completely grasp. You listen fully to your encoded directions on how to live, eat, and reproduce without ever realizing such, or having the desire to expand upon them with a will of your own. There is hardly a will within you that seeks anything more than continued life and eventual conception of genetic couriers to continue your pantheon that began with the instant organic matter blinked itself to be.

Now, to bring us to our final waypoint, imagine yourself as you are, a human. You are the aquanaut in the ocean of consciousness. The water flows all throughout you, you feel it all over your body, it is cold. You are able to articulate that it is cold, and since it's cold, you seek warmth. Warmth reminds you of pleasant memories behind fires. These fires are something far beyond the ocean; creatures who live their entire lives deep within will only know fire when an entity of the land brings them to it. To have reached a sapient level of understanding means to have stepped far beyond the ocean while still understanding the importance of taking in water. Sapience means knowledge as to why it is water is needed, not for the simple reason that we are coded to take it in. Human consciousness is knowing why we are programmed in the manner we are, and having the choice, not the irrefutable desire, to explore and listen to them. To provide an astounding aside, having the ability to destroy one's self out of sheer choice to knowingly exit this plane of reality, disobeying all encoded directions on life, is a characteristic that assists in defining the current height of consciousness so far uncovered. In summation, the choice and ability to carry out actions and patterns of thought not inherently established by the natural desires of life, but instead by one's own conscious intellect is what separates humanity from all other life on Earth.

Now, how can the border between the consciousness ocean and the known world be articulated? Could it be a separate dimensional plane, either blending with our own or encapsulating it from a spatial plane exceeding ours? Or, perhaps, could consciousness be here, within the world as it is understood, living as something that exists solely as a by-product of itself? In accordance with logical thought and understanding of higher dimensional spaces, it seems likely to perceive consciousness, as it is in this world, no different than time. Time and consciousness share a remarkable number of similarities when it is considered in what exact manners they exist and are percieved. Time is a concept seen only through what it affects; particles decaying are reflective of how time works, but is not time itself; the same notion applies to all clocks and watches. Simimlarly, conciousness is not viewd as a prue object, but rather, in the creations from which it spawned, such as intellegent minds. Time is a concept, an intangibility naming some higher complex plane that pushes the flow of the universe in a direction that demands constant change. Time cannot exist without there being the effects of time present. Therefore, in a similar vein to consciousness, time cannot exist without time. Consciousness cannot exist without conscious minds, and time cannot exist without time being present to cause change. This paradoxical relationship demonstrates the strange connection between both concepts, while also providing the means to determine their origin. For time to exist, it would have to collapse in within a state of superposition. Since time cannot exist without the changes it creates, both would have to have been placed into the universe at the same instant. This means that time and the changes caused by time are ingredients in a soup of synthesis, perhaps the Big Bang, or whatever else may have caused a sudden birth of reality.

It has already been established that consciousness seemingly collapsed within existence too, needing both a mind and the conscious fuel to spawn at the same time. At this point, there are two directions this path of thought can sprout towards. Firstly, one may think that consciousness was birthed at the instant the universe formed and the conscious mind that was created alongside it was a higher dimensional being, a boltzmann brain, or some other entity that could think so that the intangible notion of conscious understanding could enter reality alongside it. The other path would be that consciousness and the conscious mind entered the world much later, in a state of universal stability where life that does not have to focus on living can exist. Humans, as we were the moment we created our first tools and cities, may have been apart of the collapsing of consciousness into the universe, with our brains spontaneously obtaining the ability to think beyond the walls of primitive actions.

With accordance to the established similarities between time and consciousness, it would make sense to assume that time and consciousness were established at the beginning of reality, seeing as how time must have been synthesized then. However, with this assumption being the only sort of correlation that could define the origin of consciousness, it would be better left to the interpretation of the conscious mind to decide how it came to be, as a mere assumption is too vague and the world often is far more complex. However, this stipulation creates an interesting notion.

A conscious mind establishing when consciousness was synthesized is, in of itself, a collapsing of consciousness into existence. You are the mind, taking in a deeper understanding of what it means to perceive, and at the same time establishing how it came to be. You are providing the means for both the conscious receptors (the mind) and fuel (the abstract notion of consciousness and its origin [The Ocean]). By having this experiment in thought, your perceived reality has snapped consciousness into a state of existence and origin unlike it was before. Since your consciousness is all that can be experienced, you have successfully defined and created a pocket reality regarding the origins of understanding as it pertains. Once again, since all that can be understood comes from within, this pocket reality exists within as well. So, in a sense, there exists a multiverse within the universe of conscious minds. Each and every human could have their own interpretation of universal conception of understanding, and since all that can be understood comes from processes within, their personal notions will always be certain. 

To bring this thought experiment to a close, take it within and understand that each and every human is a powerful creator in their own right simply because we can think. This ability to understand is a powerful tool which may be shared throughout space, or limited to only us. Let humanity continue to push the boundaries in thought and explore planes of conceived existence never imagined. Let humanity continue to strive on it's conscious journey towards ultimate glory, so that maybe, one moment in the infinitely far future, we ourselves become the very conscious fuel that seeded us, perhaps giving new life and taking it within to continue forwards towards even greater unknowns.