Thursday, December 17, 2009

The Unifying Factor: Is Soul the Global Consciousness?

Before entering into a conversation about the "soul" six corrolary premsis need to be reiterated.
One, we are one organism with different roles, working on the same product.
Two, we may never know that we have a role, or what that role is.
Three, we can still work together despite our ignorance, like an assembly line of parts.
Four, we may be aware of our role and work together like a body; akin to the conscious-free foot that walks without being aware of where, why, or how.
Five, those unique roles on the assembly line or body are what make us special.
Six, recognizing those roles is facilitated by subjectivity.

However who or what is the CEO of the assembly line; who or what is the brain coordinating our body?

One response, is the same thing that coordinates nature, (the tree gets its rain and sun and the lion has its antelope etc.) is what coordinates the human species.

Perhaps, but does that mean that genocide and a rainless rain-forest are two sides of the same coin? Are the wars and suffering part of that CEO's plan? If so do we really want that CEO, if that CEO is coordinating those actions?

To offer a different perspective, a return to the analogy of the body is called for. The body often injures itself. I know cigarettes are bad, but it only seems to affect one part of my body, so I smoke.
Genocide is bad, but it only affects one part of humanity, so I kill.

Thus, just as it is possible for the human to disregard its consciousness, so to can the organism of one, act in a contradictory manner. In other words genocide, and the lack of rain, are choices made by parts of the organism, probably because it doesn't understand that it is part of the same organism. They are outside the plan, they are an aberration.

On the other-hand who is to say the aberration is an aberration. Perhaps trees witness genocide and whisper, "they are acting as nature intended"? Perhaps polar bears look at violence and mumble "it is just like our ice melting". Do we distinguish between natural and unnatural mistakenly? Perhaps the plan is so big and final product so complex that we cannot help but be myopic.

Perhaps the only way to distinguish nature/plan and unnatural/deviance, is to view how an action affects the whole, utilitarianism on a global level, but then who or what can really understand consequences of that magnitude?

Let us put that digression aside, and wonder about this coordinator, and how that coordinator assures that we, the parts, which look and feel separate can work in unison. The mechanism that engenders cohesion.

The brain coordinates the body using a system of "cables" via the spine, what coordinates humanity and the all that exists with it? If the plan is big and far-sighted then we would need a mechanism that is able to meet that demand.

The satellite can communicate messages, information, and commands across the globe.
The internet keeps us in touch with everything we choose to follow.
Why cant the body have a mechanism that keeps all that is in step.
A global-consciousness that is only being understood as we begin to understand the connectivity of nature. A global-consciousness that can only be understood with a metaphor that only recently has been "invented".

Is it a coincidence that this blog is on a network that mimics the soul? Are the soul, nature, and global-consciousness different labels for the same concept, the unifying factor?

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