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2. Models and meaning
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The concept of awareness
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| If you look up the word “awareness” in any general dictionary, you will find the only listing is as “self-awareness” (meaning “an awareness of one's own personality or individuality”). However, if you look up the word “aware”, a much wider meaning is listed, namely “having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge”. | ||
| There not usually existing a general listing of “awareness” as a unique listing, we define it to mean “unique perception and/or knowledge of self and all”. | ||
| 2.5.1 | Awareness as unique knowledge of self or all | |
| The first part of awareness is as unique perception of knowledge. Examples of knowledge are science, history, society, economics, mathematics, languages and religion. | ||
| Therefore in one sense to say a person “has greater awareness”, it can mean they have greater knowledge of such subjects. | ||
| 2.5.2 | Awareness as unique perception of self or all | |
| In contrast, unique perception of self or all does not require great knowledge of science, only of what a person is “feeling”. Unique perception is completely subjective. | ||
| There are some words that are especially related to this aspect of awareness as they are most commonly used to mean the same thing. These are: Mind, Consciousness, Ethereal, Ether, Being and Self. | ||
| 2.5.3 | Greater perceptual awareness | |
| Unique perception of all is considered a “higher” form of awareness and is a basic concept associated with ideas such as meditation, astral travel, telepathy, spiritual channeling and healing. | ||
| 2.5.4 | Self-aware life | |
| The rational reason that awareness is not usually listed as an independent object in the dictionary is not because the concept does not exist, but because the concept does not exist in reality. | ||
| The only evidence of awareness is self-aware lifeforms such as the human being and other higher-order species on planet Earth. There is simply no evidence awareness existing independent of a living thing. | ||
| 2.5.5 | The idea of Awareness as an independent quality “in theory” | |
| Even though awareness as an independently existing
quality is considered impossible, it still exists as a theoretical idea.
Awareness as an independent quality is an idea. |
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