Consciousness Cannot Be Defined

I've posted before on this subject. What I posted previously was about the philosophical aspects of spirituality regarding consciousness. "Awareness is nothing more then a product of consciousness. Since without consciousness (in a unconscious state) there can be no such self awareness it can be said we don't exist unto ourselves under these conditions."

New Zealand woman drives for 190 miles asleep at the wheel
By Agence France-Presse |The Raw Story

"After five hours on the road, she was finally found slumped over the wheel of her car in the driveway of a house she used to live in, with no recollection of her sleepy sojourn."Wikipedia describes consciousness this way. "Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind." If readers prefer a lengthily discussion I suggest they read more about consciousness there.

One of the mysteries that's plagued mankind has always been trying to get a handle on consciousness. Whenever we broach this subject it becomes like one chasing one's own tail. The reason for that is, consciousness is trying to evaluate it's own self. It is as a mirror trying to see it's own reflection.

Rather then get too windy I think this article entitled "The Conundrum of Consciousness" best describes briefly anything I could say here about this subject. "But do you even have a mind? Scientists don't know where the brain ends and the mind begins. Are they the same thing? What about souls? Are these located in our brains? What is responsible for all of the unique thoughts and feelings that make us who we are? Everyone from philosophers to physicists has taken up this question of consciousness and come up empty."

Let me add a yet other dimensions to this mystery. How can humans ever be certain we aren't dreaming about being awake when in fact we aren't? If indeed that were to be the case, would we then not be dreaming about dreaming when we go to sleep? Just how many levels (reflections in the mirror) could there be to consciousness?

Could we one day wake up like this lady did, then end up realizing we aren't really who we think ourselves to be in our current state of awareness? Even if we did, would that then "current waking state" be yet another reflection?

Speaking on a philosophically religious level... Is this how the single creator of us all appears as many and yet is only one? We were told by biblical scholars that we were created in the "image" of God. Think about that and all that it implies.

If one is stressed out by living with relatives, think about having to live with all the rest of world as our relatives too!
          Yeah it's like that :-)