The Stack of Our Sentience · Pin Down Your Inner Spheres
⁘ “What about awareness — or consciousness — or cognition? Terms with countless definitions. We discuss these words at length. We don't review the actual "what is" — we debate over pointless pointers. Then, for consciousness, for awareness, for cognition – my working definitions in describing the stack of our sentient experience. Unified non-particular potential. Framing containers for our conscious dynamics. The concrete cognitive processes.”
What about awareness, or consciousness,
or cognition for that matter?
Terms with a hundred definitions,
whether in spirituality or psychology,
and then we discuss,
then we debate,
what these words are.
Yet, if we engage with words that carry no substance,
we use pointers without a point in reality,
terms without a terminal,
then it's all rather very pointless, isn't it?
Then, instead of mincing words to determine what is,
let's return to the "what is"
and choose the most appropriate words.
Then, for consciousness,
for awareness, for cognition –
these are my preferred definitions
in describing the stack of our sentient experience.
From the roots downward: Consciousness.
A unified field, an energetic potential
that is nothing until it becomes in a context.
Then, awareness.
Our inner atmospheres,
tunings of space that hosts
the particular forms of our experience.
Awareness, containers for our conscious fields,
their framings in a particular tuning.
Horizontal, vertical, expanding, contracting,
adaptive, reactive, and so on.
There's no real content there yet
– simply a particular dynamism.
Then, onward, into cognition,
the actual concrete processes
that handle our comprehension of this reality.
Perception and recognition,
memory and recall, and so on.
All of these, neutral processes
– there is no "you" there yet.