The Role of Dreaming in Philosophy In a recent article, I discussed the four tiers of reality, called waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and transcendent. Each successive stage of reality is given greater importance, which means that dreaming is more important than waking. This surprises people—We dream when we sleep; how […]
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The Self as the Basis for Science
Article Introduction and Overview In several places, I described a semantic conception of reality in which all reality is like a book, comprising symbols of meaning. The book expands out of an idea, and the individuality of the idea divides into the individuality of chapters, paragraphs, sentences, words, and phonemes. […]
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The Relational Nature of Consciousness
Introduction and Overview Vedic texts describe the self in three words, namely, sat, chit, and ānanda. The chit is the knower and known, sat is knowing, and ānanda is the happiness derived from the knower knowing the known. What we call ‘consciousness’ is the process of knowing that operates under […]
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Consciousness Has a Gender
Three Kinds of Genders In the previous article, we discussed how matter is also consciousness, although a different type of consciousness. We identified three types of consciousness—God, soul, and matter—and discussed their natures. This article extends that discussion and identifies three genders associated with the three types of consciousness—masculine, feminine, […]
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Consciousness is Rooted in Inner Conflict
Introduction and Overview This article discusses how choice arises from conflict, in the act of conflict resolution. The nature of this conflict, how conflict resolution leads to compromises in which one side goes dominant and the other subordinate, and how the dominant-subordinate structure is later reversed, producing a cyclic change, […]
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How We Can Study Consciousness in Science
Introduction and Overview In this article I will describe what consciousness is and argue that while we cannot reduce consciousness to matter, we still can study matter using consciousness as the model. In short, we begin by assuming the soul, and then explain matter. Modern science tries to study matter […]
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The Four Tiers of Reality
Introduction and Overview The soul in Vedic texts comprises sat, chit, and ananda—i.e. consciousness or relation to things, the search for meaning, and the search for happiness. The search for meaning creates a personality—i.e. how others know you. The search for happiness creates an individuality—i.e. what kinds of pleasures one […]
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The Mechanisms of Choice
Introduction and Overview When John von Neumann introduced the idea of the “conscious collapse” into quantum theory, he committed a heresy—or at least something that would have been considered a heresy up until that point—by introducing a causal agent called “consciousness” within science. Science until that point had worked explicitly […]
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The Problem of Measurement in Science
Introduction and Overview It is commonly assumed that science describes objective facts about the world, which are discovered through measurements of physical properties. The problems in this measurement are generally not understood, and this post describes them, highlighting two key issues of circularity and recursion in the definition of measurement. […]