A Higher Enlightenment
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Are the elements of life and consciousness misconstrued by humans?
Alternatively, have I written yet another ridiculous and pointless conception of life and consciousness, exactly like countless others who came before me.
Existence is merely a materialistic concept that simply is; it does not imply that something is alive.
But in order for life to exist, something must exist.
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At its heart, consciousness depends on having a life and being awake; these are prerequisites for consciousness to exist.
Life is necessary for sleep to occur, whereas life and cognition are absolutely essential for dreaming.
Life and knowledge of life's experiences are prerequisites for thought to take place.
For you to have any experiences, at least one of the following conditions must have been met before birth. These conditions are commonly known as five senses are Touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Only under these circumstances is anything experience-able.
It is merely because of at least one of these senses, you can experience things and are therefore aware of them as a result.
A fantastic illustration of this, is someone who is blind and deaf being aware of holding something. Even though they can't fully comprehend what it is.
They can still properly structure their perceptions using the other senses. Moreover, as a result, now have an experience and are able to construct thoughts based on this experience.
In light of this, we can say that if none of these prerequisites are met before the moment when you are born. Then you are unable to experience anything, and as a
consequence of this you are also unable to have any thoughts. So if you have never had experiences and are unable construct thoughts how could you dream?
For example if one was born with no Touch, Taste, Sight, Hearing, or Smell, how could they be aware/conscious of anything?
How could they be aware of this; if a ball was placed in their hands?
The answer to this is they can not. And as a direct result of this they surely could not dream about it.
They would not be conscious, only alive.
But, let us give them one sense in this argument; let us allow the sense of touch once more.
Now if a ball were placed in their hands, they would still lack any knowledge of what it is. However, they can be conscious of this and aware of themselves touching it.
They can now construct thoughts of this experience. So thoughts can reimagine this feeling, and surely one could dream of this feeling and experience too.
If we were to take this ball away, the person once holding this would be aware of its absence, this might invoke emotion in the form of sadness or anger.
One could continue to dream of the experience of having the ball. So let us allow this person to dream of this.
Out side of this dream they are conscious they don't have the ball any more as they are already aware of its absence based on past experiences.
So they could be aware of the difference from dreams and being awake, even if they don't quite understand.
In conclusion, the absence of basic biological sense, would make it impossible to distinguish between being awake and asleep, if you can't be aware that you were once asleep. Instead, you will merely swap between cycles automatically.
And there would be no way to be conscious of anything if you don't have any thoughts or experiences.
It is as a result of these circumstances and the necessity of at least one of them.
That I've come to a conclusion on what self-consciousness is.
There are several prerequisites, including existence, living, being awake, and conscious, that are without a doubt necessary conditions for being self-conscious.
Self- Consciousness
We are Self-Conscious because, we are cognizant of the fact that we Exist, that we are alive, awake and we
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