Knowing the Consciousness to transfer the I
- Alberto Terrer
- Dec 9, 2023
- 5 min read
Because the key to the transference of an "I" would be, without a doubt, the Consciousness.
As a general rule, science assumes that the Universe existed from the first instant and that life, with Consciousness, arose in it at a certain moment.
If that were the case, obviously, life and Consciousness could be replicated because it would be a question of structures.
Once we found the right atomic structure, we could create Consciousness.
It is important to understand what Consciousness is. Or, at least, what Consciousness means to me.
Any living organism possesses a will. Faced with a given number of possibilities, it chooses the one it desires, violating the physical rules of the Universe it inhabits.
For example, any structure that is pushed from the left, will move to the right until the force that gave it impulse disappears due to the rest of the forces acting on it.
If we push a ball with our foot, it will move forward until it stops due to inertia, wind, etc...
But a bacterium pushed from the left could stop its movement or change its trajectory at will.
It possesses an ability to understand its environment and act accordingly, making decisions all the time. A bacterium does it, a plant does it, and a human does it.
That which is capable of understanding the environment and acting accordingly is Consciousness. We could summarize it by saying that there is someone inside that body.
Death is not the destruction of the body, but the disappearance of that Consciousness in that body.
Well, if Consciousness arises spontaneously in the Universe, it should be able to be detected and replicated.
In this case, creating an artificial replica of a biological body, then insufflating it with Consciousness and pouring into that replica the Ego of an individual, would be feasible.
Even in a virtual format, without a physical form defining its body.
Once we knew what Consciousness is, how it is created and how it is maintained, the rest would be just a matter of creating the appropriate support and loading the desired Self into that support.
This would be true as long as Consciousness is a consequence of the Universe.
But if, instead, we were to think that the Universe is the cause of Consciousness, then we would have to change the focus entirely.
On this assumption, we would have no way of really understanding what Consciousness is, because it would be prior to the Universe, intangible, unmeasurable, unknowable in its totality.
The only thing we could know about Consciousness would be everything resulting from our own experience. That is, we know what Consciousness is because we experience it. We are that.
But we must ask ourselves if this is a real possibility or if it is pure dialectic.
The point is that, to date, everything we know about Consciousness comes from the experience of those who have investigated it. They have not found it anywhere, nor can they replicate it.
But from one's own experience we can know a great deal about it. Rather, we can deduce the characteristics of Consciousness.
For example, how does it work?
How does Consciousness really work?
Consciousness, that which allows a structure to be alive, to interact with the environment, to understand it and to carry out actions in order to stay alive in time, possesses a continuity.
It does not stop at any moment. Well yes, but that is what we know as death.
The problem with Consciousness is that it generates subjective and individual experiences. Therefore, we cannot know death without experiencing it.
But why would we want to know death, what lies behind it? Well, basically, to know what happens to the Consciousness when the physical body dies.
Because, perhaps, in this way we could get to know where it is housed, where it comes from, why it manifests itself in every living being that is born from another living being, but does not appear spontaneously around us.
Consciousness maintains a continuity and does not disconnect. We are awake, we imagine, we remember, we sleep... and between all these states there are no interruptions. There is no moment in which we have ceased to exist.
Well, I qualify this last point. Rather, there is no moment in which the Consciousness has ceased to manifest, because the "I" does not always remain with it.
This is what happens, for example, when we dream. We can act as if certain conditions of our "real" life did not exist and have behaviors adapted to that new circumstance.
In some dream, we may be with a partner from the past, not knowing that he or she is no longer in our life. But we will act believing in what we dreamed.
This implies that the Self that we are, that mixture of memories and beliefs that defines us, that gives continuity to our Identity, is not intrinsic to Consciousness.
We can perfectly well dream that we are astronauts and that we orbit around the earth. That will be a new "I" that, perhaps, will wonder how it got there without remembering the previous steps.
But it will form a new Self, adapted to its circumstances.
The Self, the Identity, would be information in the form of memory files. If they are loaded into the Consciousness, then we will be the same Self. If some of them disappear, we will be a different version of that Self.
This is the same thing that happens to someone who suffers from amnesia. Basically, the Consciousness will access some files that will create the new Self. If there are no files, then it will be like a new birth.
Knowing the mystery of the Consciousness is the key to the transference of the Self to avoid its annihilation.
Understanding the origin and its characteristics implies understanding the medium in which the Self is formed and how to grant it eternity.
I am certain that Consciousness is much more than a series of chemical reactions. I believe that all forms of life are Consciousness and that it has an origin prior to the creation of the universe and the appearance of physical forms.
I believe that Consciousness, likewise, has an origin: Presence.
Thus, I believe that in the origin there was a Presence (I call it Self-perception) and that this began to perceive generating Consciousness and the Universe.
Consciousness is the experience of the Presence maintained in time. And, it is possible, as a consequence of Self-reference, which is the creation of an I, different from the Environment that perceives.
Consciousness is the substratum where experience happens and, therefore, experience exists as something similar to a thought of Consciousness.
Inquiring into thought we cannot reach the experiencer, just as during a dream we cannot access the dreamer.
But the fact that we cannot access Consciousness does not mean that we cannot understand it by deduction and that we cannot transfer an "I".
However, it does not mean that we can do so. To transfer an "I" is not something simple and, perhaps, it is not possible either.
However, if it were possible to do so, it would be necessary to create a structure with Consciousness and for the I to be able to assemble itself in it.
So that the Consciousness, by loading the memory file of the "I", would again be that "I". Both the thoughts and the biological reactions of those thoughts should coincide.
The "I" is a jumble of thoughts, emotions and sensations. If the living structure were not identical to the original one from which the "I" came, we would obtain a different "I". Perhaps very similar to the previous one, but it would not be the same.
For the Self is not a fixed value, but variable and cumulative. It is a story that we tell ourselves all the time. If we are not able to tell it to ourselves, then we will cease to be the same Self.
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