Consciousness; a radically new theory. ephemeral? (Introduction)

by romansh , Friday, July 10, 2015, 02:31 (3207 days ago) @ David Turell

Can consciousness be immaterial, an ephemeral entity? I would argue not.-Firstly, it seems to follow me around. If I go for a jog it follows me. Or go for a drive, even doing 120 km/h it follows me around. Flying at 10 000 m at 900 km/h it is there with me. It follows astronauts around the Earth or on the way to the moon. So I don't think it is ephemeral in this sense.-So people suggest a transmitter-receiver metaphor. Is the same consciousness being transmitted in space and time? Perhaps. But for the moment let us assume it is not. I can move from one location to another, my awareness/consciousness does not seem to change. Just sitting here the minutes it takes me to write this, I have moved tens of thousands of kilometres in space without changing my consciousness, at least not noticeably so. Does this mean consciousness is consistent through space? Not necessarily. Other people's consciousness seems to be different, at least to some. But the converse is not true either.-This then brings us to receiver. All our supposed receivers are built differently so we pick up different aspects of the transmissions. So we don't know if the transmissions vary but likely their reception does. So we start thinking about the construction of our receiver. Well it is continually be assembled in our toddlerhood, to the point it is considered fully conscious. Then after that the receiver is tinkered with by the experiences we have, the foods we eat and drinks we imbibe. Repeated experiences seems to strengthen certain aspects of receiver.
Now, a slightly more scientific inquiry, is the transmission and consequent reception described by cause and effect and thermodynamics in general? Well I certainly don't know, but my reception of the transmission is not aware of evidence of this kind.-I am sadly lacking any such evidence of this transmission. I will not use the word therefore, but for the moment I will move ahead on the assumption that this ephemeral consciousness is an unnecessary assumption.