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Hello Allen,

I see where you thanked my last post, and though I didn't know it when I was writing it, I guess it relates to this discussion. Being as you read my current attempt to describe how I view consciousness, I would only add that perhaps if we stop viewing consciousness as an active element in our world and give consideration to it possibly being a passive element, a whole new realization of life might open up to us.

Then life takes the view that the fingers above that stroked the keyboard aren't at the mercy of consciousness, but rather the real motions that are universal life. Consciousness then takes the role of recognized interactions.

Perhaps consciousness could never move a rock because it doesn't create action/motion within our universal system, or our body, perhaps it merely records the events that do happen within our proximity of awarness. It might not can move rocks, but it will allow you to recall the last time one hit you in the head.

My current feelings tell me that anytime we build a physical system to describe our world and we admit to any physical interaction of the fundamental substance/substances being repetitive, thus able to be predicted due to its/their nature, then we are admitting to some sort of a plank level of consciousness. We could attribute certain action/reaction to things such as the geometry/shape of the fundamental participants, but how does nature tell two spheres what to do in the event of a collision, perhaps, consciously.

Perhaps, when enough physical interactions take place within a small enough portion of space (life), our acknowledgement is merely the instantaneous universal calculations, as they take place within our mind, of what just happened, and how everything reacted as it should.

I hope this makes sense.