Conscious
by Christian Wadskov

You are about 1/2 sec late.

According to experiments conducted by neurophysiologist Benjamin Libet, the human consciousness is delayed. When the brain is ready for action ( measurable by EEG) it takes about 0,3 sec before you have a perception of Will and another 0,2 sec before the action.

What does this tell you ?

Firstly:
Subjective consciousness is not needed for action to take place. Human reaction time is shorter than 0,5 sec. (And most of what you do is unconscious anyway, just trust your body)

Secondly:
The experience is over before you become conscious of it, allowing the perceptions to be structured to general consensus (culture) and formed into this language. We see what we think we perceive, not what we actually perceive. What we experience have been added meaning before it becomes conscious. The conscious mind is a speaker, communicating your world. And that world is a simulation.

Meaning is only meaning in reference to or in distance from other meaning. Meanings are multiple, changing, contextual. There are no absolute truths beneath the shifting sands of history. There is only local and contingent truth, generated by human groups through their cultural systems. Even the unconscious is a cultural construct, as taboos are culturally formulated. Language itself, not some essential humanness or timeless truth is central to culture and meaning. It follows that the world we think we occupy is not the world we factually occupy. The world is a construction of ideology, the aforementioned simulation of the way that the world is. And this simulation even shapes our Selves.

Now enter Gödels and Turing. No logical system or language can prove its consistency from the inside. Randomness is what can not be expressed in an algorithm, and no one knows if it can be expressed in an algorithm before it actually is. We know there is order if we see it, but we cannot know that there isn’t order just because we can’t see it. The world can not be expressed in a complete theory, because all systems refer to their CENTER, the thing that created the system in the first place.

Until further notice the only map of the world that works is the world. and that’s a lot of information.

If information is not the problem, it is structuring the information ( wisdom ) that matters. Which leads us to logical depth. This is information processed by the sender into the relative simple system of language. The sender packs his personal perceptions, feelings and experiences into nice little consensual packages (words) that are supposed to have the same meaning to the other person who then unpacks them and fills them with their own perceptions, feelings and experiences. They might not be the same as the senders, but if both are from the same ”world” elephants are generally big and gray with four legs.

More general: A subject sends out an object (word, art, music etc.) that is received by another subject. Normally the way we look at communication is that the actual message is the essential, but if you throw in the concept of presence (actually being there, speech) you get an object that carries much more than itself. There is a subliminal transference of your Self to the recipient, which will affect both sender and recipient. And the most important here is the fact that it is subconscious and as such goes beyond the simulation of the world. In this context it is actually the ”noise” of the message that becomes interesting. And the noise is an opening towards another way of perceiving the world, because it at the same time carries other meanings of language and is free from language.

Because we cannot detach ourselves from the simulation (it forms our Selves), what is necessary is not to make new binary oppositions (just denying what is and deciding to believe in something else), which is just proceeding with the old order, but to look at the existing and erase the boundaries to show that the order and values implied by the oppositions are not rigid. This way you open up the world and put chaos into play. You can not escape your conscious mind and culture by Will. It is your starting point.