Consciousness

http://inlink.gaia.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:16:02 GMT

I take it that zero comments means either you wholeheartedly agree with me, or my thoughts are so far off the wall that they don't deserve a comment. This thought leaves me with this following piece of my mind.

Evan Harris Walker, my guru, is not the kind of revolutionary who makes the news. Walker and I agree that you have a will you control. You can be weak willed or strong willed. Hitler was strong willed. We call him a maniac. Were the German people under Nazi law maniacs or realists-thought in terms of the way things really are?

Jesus was strong willed. He is said to be the most influential man who ever lived. We understand the difference in Hitler and Jesus. Could your pet dog or cat? Walker, who recently died, was a quantum physicist. After learning that in the world of the very small there was a choice process going on, nothing was certain, he wondered what was going on in our brains.

This physicist at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland proposed in 1970 the first quantum model of synaptic function. For those of you who don't know, trillions of electrical signals travel through the brain's nerves. Nerves have endings. Between the endings is a moat called the synapse. This moat is called a "Maybe Gate." Some signals are allowed to pass through, some stopped at the synapse. It must have something to do with consciousness, thought Walker.

Walker wrote a book I read entitled The Physics of Consciousness. The dead giveaway is that his colleagues accused Walker of trying to smuggle God into physics. Physicists are supposed to stick with their field of expertise. Walker envisioned a "super consciousness" Wrote Walker: "We can understand mind as including conscious experience and will. We can see how these fit into the physical processes of the brain that are involved in thinking, the data-processing operations at synaptic junctions in the brain."

Do you understand how offensive this idea would be to authority-that we have choices? We can either be led to believe we are simply playing out our allotted time, circus animals jumping through hoops, or, according to Walker, we can operate on our own wills. Just think, God allowing us choice! Never in a million years, if authority has anything to say about it.

My first grade teacher used to walk up behind me and whack me on the head with a ruler for writing with my left hand. I nearly jumped out of my skin. It infuriated me. I was naturally left-handed. My father told me that God gave Adam everything a man needed but Adam disobeyed God's command. All that I had was because men and women gave their lives, said he. He accused me of not appreciating all that had been done for me. I was taught that if I even thought about sex I was committing a mortal sin. It's outrageous! It is not human. Starting very early in life, authority teaches us to be puppies all of our lives-stigmatizes us, eliminates our God-given choices.

You can be sure that scientific authorities, in cooperation with religious and legal authorities, would search for conscious awareness in the brain. Never in a million years could consciousness come from a super consciousness of the universe. The universe, from nothing, started with a Big Bang. Common sense should tell everyone that from nothing you get nothing. Common sense tells us that without order all you would ever have is atoms floating around. Convention has no idea of what the forces of gravity and electromagnetism are. It's good enough to know what they do, and the same for human beings.

We are supposed to live under the phony reality authority places on us. It all goes back to the tiny synapse, the mystery of what controls those trillions of electrical signals. You can accept the puppy-dog answer authority gives you: the world of the very small has nothing to do with our world, or mine and Walker's answer: there is a non-local force not subject to the forces of gravity and electromagnetism that gives us choices. In other words, our choice is to think for ourselves or be obedient and dependent on the commands of the authorities.

I joined Zaadz from the idea expressed to me of changing the world. My idea of change is to kick authority out and put the individual in charge of his life. I can get along with other people without laws that rob Peter to pay Paul, without the notion that might makes right, but with the understanding that I should do unto others as I expect them to do unto me. It isn't authority's choice; it is my choice.

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