Consciousness

Consciousness is simply being aware to the deterministic outcomes that take place when your vessel does something or something is done to it.

Awareness is a spectrum that changes depending on the predetermined knowledge of any given situation.

Someone cuts you off while driving. Your learned knowledge up until that point will determine the outcome of your vessels reaction. For someone who is already very stressed from other events in their life, they may react one way. For someone who is having a great morning and are in a good mood may react differently. Someone who grew up around road raging parents will react the same way as well.

This is where awareness comes in. If you believe that in any given moment you can use free will to choose something, you are not aware to the reality of cause and effect. This will prevent you from becoming more aware to what specific causes will determine the outcome you are hoping for.

Let’s say one person has learned to accept that there is only determinism and every effect has specific causes. I will repeat that, every single effect that happens every day has a specific set of causes for it. Every single one.

There is not a single effect where the only cause is your will. None. There will always need to be another cause associated. The effects of me typing this aren’t caused by my will alone. Someone else needed to discover the internet first. The language I speak. I’m pulling from knowledge that I didn’t put there alone.

Adding free to our will is like adding god to the universe. Some invisible entity.

I like to use this analogy. The Mars rover was flown millions of miles through space and landed safely on Mars. The amount of equations and math that went into that were astronomical. Out of all of those equations, not a single one used a variable for god. And the rover still made it.

Yes, humans willed the rover there by using all of those causes to get the desired effect. But there was nothing free about it.

I am not choosing to have this perspective, I learned it.