Conscious OS

This is another random thought related to consciousness.

We humans, because of our consciousness, assign a value to consciousness that is possibly distorted by the same.

For example, we have feelings and because we are aware of them we often believe that consciousness and feelings cannot exist independently.

You would probably assign a much lower value to the external signs of feelings in an animal because you would assume it is either unaware, or very much less aware, of the symptoms of its ‘feelings’.

But then think of your own heart. Most of the time its beats without you having awareness of it beating. Occasionally, under great stress, some people become aware of their heart ‘pumping’.

My point is that most of the time a heart beats quite independently of the awareness of it.

The same is true of our feelings and possibly also our thoughts.

So my proposition is that our conscious awareness of our bodily functions, feelings and thoughts is quite intermittent, variable in intensity and sometimes absent altogether.

That’s not quite the computer control system that we like to consciously believe that we have.

It would appear that consciousness floats above the other functions, dipping in and out, and focusing here and there or nowhere as needed and possibly according to some operating system rule set that we inherit and/or learn.

It would appear to me that most mental syndromes and conditions relate to a failing in an individual of the consciousness override system to kick in when the rest of us expect it to.

The underlying feelings or thoughts that drive the odd behavior are probably always there in all of us.

The same is possibly also true for action of drugs. Consciousness altering not mind altering.

Now I’m going to consciously stop thing about consciousness ’cause it’s odd isn’t it?