{"id":97,"date":"2007-11-15T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/appendix-d\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:26:28","slug":"appendix-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summametaphysica.com\/gg\/appendix-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Appendix D: Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consciousness remains a vast unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Above, in the main body of the book, I posit a  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cumulative consciousness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  And this speculative conjecture is an integral part of my philosophical construct.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we know from Astrophysics that<br \/>\n~half-a-billion years<br \/>\nafter the Big Bang (with the Big Bang currently calculated at 13.7 billion years ago), Supernovas (collapsing hi-mass stars) started \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccreating\/manufacturing\/cooking\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the so-called heavier elements (elements heavier than #26 Iron)  in their cores,<br \/>\nand then projected them outwards to the far reaches<br \/>\nof the universe.<\/p>\n<p>These heavier Elements were, in turn, necessary building-blocks for LIFE.<br \/>\nMeaning, without the DEATH of the supernovas,<br \/>\nthere would be no LIFE.<br \/>\nMeaning, on some level, from DEATH,<br \/>\nemerges (fuller and fuller) LIFE.<br \/>\nNow, we posit as a consistent theme throughout<\/p>\n<p>SUMMA,<br \/>\nthat: <em> the human parallels the cosmic<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe question is just exactly how.<\/p>\n<p>So, we see from Astrophysics, that DEATH can<br \/>\nprofoundly yield LIFE.<br \/>\nThe question is:<br \/>\nIs there a parallel in <em>human death<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>So, perhaps, perhaps,<br \/>\n(individual) human death enhances the<br \/>\n<em>cumulative cosmic consciousness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is fragile and dangerous terrain,<br \/>\nand I simply  do not have a good intuitive feel here.<br \/>\nHence, placement in an Appendix.<\/p>\n<p>However, intriguingly,<br \/>\nMaimonides, Guide to the Perplexed,<br \/>\nfrom Friedlander\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s translation,<br \/>\nPart I, 74, 7th argument:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Amr, and therefore the souls of all the departed form only one being as has been explained by Ibn Bekr Ibn Al-zaig, and others who ventured to speak on these profound subjects.  In short, such intricate disciplines, which our mind can scarcely comprehend, cannot furnish any principles for the explanation of other subjects.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Somewhat cryptic, for sure, but positing that,<br \/>\npost-Death \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>all souls merge into one<\/em>.<br \/>\nNow, Souls are certainly not necessarily Consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>But, then again, maybe they are (very) closely<br \/>\ninter-related&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, perhaps, the Death of an individual, somehow <em>enhances the cumulative consciousness<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c on some level, however profound.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, we should respectfully leave this particular matter (Consciousness) at that (for this treatise)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><br \/>\nend of Appendix D<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><!--COPY THIS ENTIRE CODE TO START TABLE--><\/p>\n<hr width=\"80%\" size=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<table width=\"314\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 125px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/appendix-c-extraordinariation\/\">< BACK<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50px\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/appendix-e-evolution-from-the-perspective-of-summa-metaphysica\/\">NEXT><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--END OF TABLE--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consciousness remains a vast unknown. Above, in the main body of the book, I posit a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cumulative consciousness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. And this speculative conjecture is an integral part of my philosophical construct. Now, we know from Astrophysics that ~half-a-billion years after the Big Bang (with the Big Bang currently calculated at 13.7 billion years ago), Supernovas (collapsing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Appendix D: Consciousness - David Birnbaum Summa Metaphysica II<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summametaphysica.com\/gg\/appendix-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Appendix D: Consciousness - David Birnbaum Summa Metaphysica II\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Consciousness remains a vast unknown. 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