Comments - ESSENCE of EDEN - Gaia Community2024-03-29T12:52:11Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A13138&xn_auth=noConsciousness is not somethi…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-05-27:5313775:Comment:147032013-05-27T09:11:58.266ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="http://andrewcohen.org/blog/defense-integral-theory" target="_blank">Consciousness is <em>not something that can be sucked out of being</em></a></strong> to leave an awareness-free</p>
<p>“ontology” lying around waiting to be known by some other sentient being; <em>consciousness, rather,</em></p>
<p><em>goes all the </em><em>way down, </em>and forms part of the intrinsic awareness and intrinsic creativity of each</p>
<p>ontological being or holon. …</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://andrewcohen.org/blog/defense-integral-theory" target="_blank">Consciousness is <em>not something that can be sucked out of being</em></a></strong> to leave an awareness-free</p>
<p>“ontology” lying around waiting to be known by some other sentient being; <em>consciousness, rather,</em></p>
<p><em>goes all the </em><em>way down, </em>and forms part of the intrinsic awareness and intrinsic creativity of each</p>
<p>ontological being or holon. <strong><a href="http://andrewcohen.org/blog/evolutionary-influences-brief-history-evolutionary-spirituality" target="_blank">Whitehead’s “<em>ultimate category</em>”</a></strong> - namely,</p>
<p>“<strong>the creative advance into novelty</strong>”—is part of the prehension of each and every being in</p>
<p>existence, and the creative-part cannot be ripped from the being‑part without severe violence. </p>
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<p>To postulate the most fundamental level of reality as merely ontology—being without knowing</p>
<p>or consciousness or creativity—is basically a 1st-tier move that shatters the Wholeness of this</p>
<p>and every real occasion.</p>
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