On 18 May 2011, at 17:38, meekerdb wrote:
On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to
remind the consciousness of the "blanche machine", the
consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories only
differentiate consciousness.
Are you claiming that every thought includes a memory? A memory
of what? The immediately preceding thought?
You lost me. I was pretending the contrary. I was with you on this.
It is *because* a thought (a conscious thought) does not
necessarily include a memory or a reference to previous thoughts
that you can remain conscious when taking a drug which disconnect
you from all memories.
Ok. I mistook your point. I agree that memory is not necessary for
consciousness - though I think it is necessary for self-consciousness.
Mystics often distinguishes the "little ego" from the "higher self".
Memory, and, usually, many bodies and things are needed for the little
ego, but I am not sure memory is needed for the "higher self-
consciousness". But this might be a word play. It is possible that
consciousness is always the same as higher self-consciousness. In that
case the (little) ego-consciousness appears when the higher self
*forgets* its status, and begin to identify itself with the memories
and the many things it believes it owns.
Bruno
What, you ask, was the beginning of it all?
And it is this ...
Existence that multiplied itself
For sheer delight of being
And plunged into numberless trillions of forms
So that it might
Find
Itself
Innumerably (Aurobindo)
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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