Core Concept
Total consciousness
The complete set of all conscious experiences across all bodies that produce your ixperiencitness. Not just one lifetime, but every one of them taken together.
Your ixperiencitness (the quality that makes your conscious experience yours) is produced not just by your current body but by every body that produces it - past, present, and future, simultaneous and sequential. The total consciousness is the complete set of all conscious experiences produced by all of those bodies taken together.
This is a striking concept because it means "you" are larger than any single body. Your total consciousness is distributed across time and space in ways your individual perspective cannot access. But all of it is genuinely yours - produced by the same ixperiencitness, instantiated in many bodies.
What this means
Your consciousness is not limited to this body and this life - it is the total of all experiences produced by your ixperiencitness across all bodies, everywhere.
From the awaretheory.com wiki (advanced reference)
The term Total consciousness refers to the all of the consciousness produced by an itobody. The total consciousness produced by an itobody over time is called the mentapath. The total consciousness produced by an itobody can be in the form of one or more awarepaths or simiawarepaths and any part of other consciousnesses that might be produced by fidentireplicas, insidentireplicas, comboidentireplicas, musidentireplicas, etc. If an awarepaducer is considered to be one itobody its mentapath can produce many awarepaths.
Related Concepts
- APA
- Douglas, M. (2026). Total consciousness. You Never Die companion site. Retrieved from https://volney.co/concepts/total-consciousness.html
- MLA
- Douglas, Mark. "Total consciousness." You Never Die companion site, 2026, https://volney.co/concepts/total-consciousness.html.
- Chicago
- Douglas, Mark. "Total consciousness." You Never Die companion site. Last modified 2026. https://volney.co/concepts/total-consciousness.html.
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