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Atomic Theories of Consciousness

A Theory Of Multiple Identical Consciousness

Atomic stands for A Theory Of Multiple Identical Consciousnesses. Multiple identical consciousnesses MIC. Imagine going back in time and seeing yourself without changing what has happened to you. That person has a consciousness that is identical to what yours was in your past. In fact, it has your consciousness. Time travel may not be possible, but it points out the concept that two or more people that have a history of the same consciousness could exist in the same time. What is an identical consciousness? A person can be conscious. What ever defines that consciousness can be applied to other people. This means that what ever one person's consciousness is, another person could have that same consciousness. What is consciousness? Consciousness is a term that is applied to people and certain other live things. It is a mentalistic term that applies to our thoughts, memories, emotions, feelings, ideas, goals, passions, perceptions, sensations. People have thoughts, memories etc. that are alike and many that are different. Consciousness is an awareness of being in a certain place with a certain extension to one's self. That extension applies to previous periods in ones life. Our consciousness is tied to a certain perception of ourselves. That perception is what we define ourselves as. We tie our consciousness to our bodies. This is because when we do something we see our bodies move not someone else's. It is possible that when we are babies we may think that we can animate other bodies like our mothers when we cry, but with experience we find that we can make our own bodies behave as we like more easily that we can other people. This picture that we develop with time is always incomplete this is because our senses are incomplete and our ability to deal with all of reality is inadequate. Our brains simply can not handle all the sensual information that the world is capable of producing. If we take all the mentalistic terms that we have and make them the same we will have an Are Multiple Identical consciousness possible? They are possible is the sense that they can be theoretically studied. As yet they can not be experimentally studied. I believe that there are two ingredients that will allow the experimental study of identical consciousnesses. These two factors are knowledge and the nature of reality. It can be stated in two questions. Does the knowledge exist in reality to control the task and is the task technically possible. What is the important of atomic theories of consciousness? They change the way we look at ourselves and other people. It changes our consciousness of consciousness. These theories change how we look at ourselves. We look at ourselves not only as a body but as a consciousness or mind. If we can define something we can name it and this is what we have done with the term mind. There are many ways to define something. Words are not the only way we can define something with a picture or even with a feeling. Anything that makes a distinction from another named thing can be named with a new name. The same thing can have many names.

Imagine the consciousness of a person like a tape of a movie. We can go forward we can go backwards. We can stop. We can make many copies. We can store it indefinitely, if we are careful. It can exist anywhere that a movie can exist without being destroyed. We can repeat any section as often as we wish. We can put cuts and splices in this movie (consciousness) until it is another movie. Consciousness in general a persons consciousness specificly is like this. Any thing that can be contemplated for a movie can be contemplated for the person and his consciousness When a consciousness does not have this property ( the property of the vcr tape) what do we call it and what properties does it have? Why and how would this type of consciousness exist? Many people already think that we have this type of consciousness. because religions say that we have unique souls. Itoconscious and non itoconscious, noitoconsciousness can be the terms for consciousness. For noitoconsciousness to exist there would have to be one or more factors that are unique in a particular consciousness and can not be duplicated.

Glossary

Itoconscious,

Itoconsciousness, Consciousness that has the properties based on the identity theory of consciousness.

Noitoconsciousness, Consciousness that has other factors that make a particular consciousness unique and unreproducable.

Noitoconscious,

Micpath, a path that has multiple identical consciousnesses in it and in some way ties them together into a path especially when the path are not in temporal alignment. This means the consciousnesses are not proceeding identically through time so that one might be earlier and one is later in life where as still another is late in life. Could a mic path be constructed so that the path is not crazy? A mic path like all path can be constructed in many different ways.