@professormaxtrinity

4 years ago

While i don't claim it to be the main mechanism of conscious experience, I would argue that the key to opening research up further lies in the nature of the characteristics and capacities of focus. More specifically, the capacity to focus attention. Focus of attention cannot be located, measured or detected with instruments and yet none of those activities can be accomplished without the capacity to personally focus attention. Focus of attention is the interface between various activities of consciousness. We experience our personal focus of attention as the direct interface between our physical senses and our interpretations of them, it's the interface between our cognitive capacities and abstract symbols, between our ideals and the feelings generated by them and so on. Interfacing is not a noun, it's a verb. The dominant characteristic of interfacing is that it's reciprocating in nature. The interface is simultaneously acting as the exchange event for however many references are engaging it. If I and my daughter are using a search engine at the same time then, the search engine O.S. is interfacing with our cognitive paths simultaneously. Thus my attention, my daughters attention and the attending operating system are engaged in simultaneous exchange events with the search engine reciprocating both mine and my daughters attention. This capacity can accommodate simple and complex relationships. The reciprocal characteristic is absolutely key here. In the example of the mothers milk letting down when her baby cries, miles away, if we use focus of attention as the mechanism for the psychic communication then, the pathways become more evident. The pathway for further discovery lies along the more in depth probing of the focus of attention, it's nature, characteristics and modalities. We need to be studying focus of attention as a mechanism. Back to the crying baby. A bit of the mothers attention is always on her child, whether she's consciously acknowledging it or not. This bit of attention ( I call it a domain of attention) is focused on the child continuously. This line of attention is unbroken. Since this domain of focus is the interface between the mom and her child , that would demonstrate that the child is reciprocating. The child is feeling, knowing and communicating with the mom through this focus and vice versa. If you accept this model it's easy to postulate that the mom is receiving communication through the bit of her personal focus of attention that is continuously on the child. This would also presume that the baby shares that specific domain or bit of attention and has direct access to it via it's own personal focus. We take our ability to focus for granted. We concentrate, shift, diffuse and rest our focus of attention at will and whim and never even stop to focus on our focussing. Anywho, there's alot of exploration yet to be done both personally and in general. It's my current area of personal research and spiritual questing. Something to think about.

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