The Geometry of consciousness

Just a free-range thought....Oceans of questions have been asked as to the nature and purpose of dreaming. So far as we know, we have yet to come up with a truly credible answer. The vast majority of dreams consist of contentt that is at best, absurd, and sometimes perverse. Images of Grandmother (dead for 12 years) walking down the asile of a grocery store taking full-sized pickup trucks off the shelves and replacing them with baby pandas. Your running through a city and the buildings are up to shoulder level. What could the purpose of such meaningless images be much less the mechanism that generates them? The inspirational image is that of the earth and the process of magma flow from the core up to the crust and back down again. Thoughts are forced upward by the action of the core, when they reach thier highest level they are just within the layer that allows them to be percieved by the conscious mind (we remember the perceptions from sleep as we are not "distracted" by reality. The process would be on-going during both the awakened and sleeping states. during the awakened state, we are not directly aware of it as we are more focused upon "external" reality, during the sleeping state we are more focused upon "internal" realtiy.) If they are not incorporated into an existant thought structure, idea, concept, belief or other mind pattern they sink back down and are "disassembled" back into thier constituent parts (???). The dream process is the process of assembly, the construction of potential realities out of the constituent parts (???(!!!)). Dreaming is then the process of the shifting of the P.O.V. from "external" reality to "internal" reality. The dream state allows us to become aware of the process of thought itself, which is an independent process and on-going. The Image below shows the concept as an analog of the know structure of the earth as a planet.

There are several assumptions at work here. First, I am making the distinction between the conscious mind, the sub-conscious mind, and the un-conscious mind. It is my belief that these three phases or regions of the mind are distinct and differentiated by content and function. The sub-conscious mind is the dream realm, the hall of long term memory, it is the place where learned skills and our individual map of immiediate reality exists. It is the realm of speculation. Acting as a kind of repository of thoughts and the elements that make up thoughts, this is a dynamic realm. The constant churning of the conscious is a relatively glacial process that is the slow, crustal shift of the structured thought forms, ideas, plans and immiediate reality driven by the volcanic forces of the sub-conscious mind. The force that drives the sub-conscious is emotion. Generated by the core, this force is the hind brain. The fundamental psycic drivers such as fear, pleasure, hatred, love, lust and others. The only real forces that are generative are the physically related ones, pain, pleasure, reproduction, and survival. Emotions are the conscious awareness of these forces and our attempts to connectively relate them to "external" events, interpret there meaning and relationship to us, and the future. Feelings and emotions are not just different words for the same thing. Emotions are projective, internally originating, positive, active, while feelings are "externally" originating, passive, negative and are recieved. The un-conscious mind is largely a mystery. The human brain is divided into three(3) major area's; the Hind-brain (pons, cerebellum, and medula oblongata), The Mid-brain (forms connections between the cerebral cortex and the brainstem and spinal cord ), and the Fore-brain (cerebrum, cerebral cortex, Lobe's). The accual structure of the brain is analygous to the structure of the mind in this model, both physically as well as functionaly. There is then not only a direct relationship between the structure and function of the brain and the mind, but we see it reflected in the structure of the earth.

The second major assumption is that consciouness itself is a phenomenon that is inseperable from the other components. We tend to believe that the mind is a "metaphorical" organ and that the brain is a physical one. This has lead to the position that consciouness must either be explainable through one or the other, not both. Electo-chemical consciousness is the flavor of the week in the field driven by the deep-seated need to kill the idea of a soul (I wonder why its so important to seperate forever from the idea of transendence?). The assumption that consciousness is inseperable from these components is not in coflict with the idea of transcendent consciousness, rather, it supports it. From the geometrical outline above we are given an image one in which waking consciousness is analygous to the crust of the earth, with the dream state being a shift to interior focus ("crust" inward, rather than "crust" outward). If this is true then the source of actual physical connection (in the brain the hind-brain) is located in the core. This is inside-out. I believe this to be the case. In a very real sense the universe is contained within consciousness rather than consciousness being a thing that is located within the universe. The implications of this are rather far reaching (not to mention, far fetched!) but I believe that a case can be made. At least for the idea of this as a P.O.V. (point of view), and perhaps as a part of the over-all structure of time and space. In M-theory (a theory that combines elements of superstring theory and with other aspects of cosmology) our universe is a region consisting of 3 diamensions of space and 1 of time that is bounded by what is refered to as an p-brane (a variation of the word membrane). Space is, arguablely, spherical as everything that we observe falls naturally into a spherical shape (even the brain!). Try to imagine that everything is inside-out. Rather than "I" being a point of view located somewhere within the universe, the universe becomes the point located at the center of the mind(/brain). That "point" (mathematical, having zero diamension) is infinite and contains the entire universe. The "diameter" of the region containing the universe (the mind) is infinite. From the perspective of the universe however, the "mind" is the infinitessimal point having zero dimension and the universe is the region containing it having infinite radius. Inside-out. The universe is full of (w)holes. If fact the universe is made of (w)holes. Consider the diagram below:

If we imagine that the region defined as "physical" reality is analogus to the "external" reality above then the region defined as "meta-physical" is the "internal" or "interior" reality and the boundry seperating them is the p-brane. The point of connection is shown as having three concentric rings around it as representive of the structure of the mind(/brain). The reality of this geometry is rather hard to imagine. The nature of consciousness becomes more far-reaching and fundamental to the nature of the universe than ever before. I have, for over twenty (20) years, held to the theory that the universe is contained within a blackhole. The basis for this is the idea of the big bang. A blackhole is little more than just a very dense stellar object. What happens can best be described by the bending of light in the region of supermassive objects, that being the angle of deflection that occurs. In the region of our sun light is bent 11 degrees, i.e; it is deflected 11 degrees off course. In the region of a blackhole light is bent 360+ degrees, i.e; it curves back upon itself and spirals inward. At the moment of creation what I believe happens is that as matter reaches infinite density the radius of the blackhole increases while the diameter is decreasing resulting in a region of space that is larger inside than out. From the "outside" perspective it becomes a vanished region of space that is bounded by an "outer event horizon" and contains a singularity. From the "inside" perspective is becomes an ever expanding region of space that contains a finite amount of matter/energy and is expanding from a single center point that seems to exist in every direction uniformly (no matter where "you" are, you are, or seem, to be at the center.). The "Big Bang" is our perception of the moment of the creation of, from our perspective; our universe, and from the universe's perspective; a blackhole. If the universe is actually a blackhole then each blackhole is another universe contained within this one. Our's is one a many blackhole contained within the larger universe that it was created within and every object great and small in a universe is a future blackhole. Consciousness then becomes a property of the (a) universe. And the number of universes is infinite. Perhaps objects that are not yet blackholes also contain universes, one's that are "farther away" (not directly connected to, or spawned from our own local). Every planet, star, atom. You ('I") would then be something beyond that. Consciousness would then be a unified field phenomenon and (i/we/you) would be individual points or parts of that unified field. Wow.

ZERO = INFINITY