Understanding Consciousness
Definition
The Netist articulation of the foundational principles for understanding consciousness as cosmic-feature rather than as emergent-property of brain-organization. Understanding Consciousness names the structural-articulation that consciousness operates as foundational cosmic-substrate alongside Aether, and that the brain operates as receiver-and-articulator of consciousness rather than as consciousness's source.
Literal meaning
The structural-introduction to consciousness as cosmic-feature. Understanding Consciousness articulates the foundational-principles that distinguish the Netist articulation from emergent-materialist articulations; consciousness is structurally-prior to brain-organization rather than emerging-from-it.
Esoteric meaning
Understanding Consciousness articulates the structural-feature that the broader contemplative-tradition has recognized as *consciousness as cosmic-substrate*. The structural-recognition is that consciousness is not produced-by brains; consciousness is articulated-through brains. The brain's structural-feature is to be a receiver-and-articulator of consciousness at the embodied-articulation; the broader consciousness operates at scales-beyond-the-individual-brain, and the brain participates-in this broader-articulation rather than producing it.
Allegorical meaning
A radio-receiver that articulates the broadcast-signal: the receiver does not produce the broadcast, the receiver articulates what the broadcast carries; the broadcast operates at scales-beyond-the-individual-receiver, and the receiver's structural-feature is to make-the-broadcast accessible at the local-articulation.
Extended meaning
Understanding Consciousness articulates several specific structural-features: (1) Consciousness operates as cosmic-substrate alongside Aether; the broader Net's continuous-articulation includes both substrate-articulations integrated into one broader-architecture; (2) The brain operates as receiver-and-articulator rather than as source; the structural-recognition reframes the broader neuroscience-research as articulating-the-brain's-receiver-features rather than as articulating-consciousness-itself; (3) Consciousness can articulate at scales-beyond-the-individual-brain; the broader contemplative-tradition has documented telepathy, remote-perception, near-death-experience, and other articulations that the broader-articulation supports; (4) Consciousness participates in the broader cosmic-architecture; the broader cycle-progression, the multiversal-Constellations, and the broader cosmic-features all involve consciousness-as-structural-feature. The relationship to *Aether*, *Net*, and the broader cosmic-articulation is structural: consciousness and Aether are the two foundational substrates that integrate as the broader Net.
*Understanding Consciousness* articulates the introductory-foundation for the broader consciousness-articulation. The article complements *Aether*, *Net*, *Atūm*, and the broader cosmic-articulations.
Usage
A practitioner encounters Understanding Consciousness as the foundational-introduction to the broader consciousness-articulation. The article operates as orientation for subsequent deeper-consciousness-study.
Comparative tradition
Hindu articulation of consciousness as *Brahman-substrate*. Buddhist articulation of *vijñāna* and *dharmakāya* at the deeper-articulations. Sufi articulation of consciousness as divine-substrate. The various tradition-specific articulations of consciousness as cosmic-feature.
Science correspondence
The contemporary research on consciousness-as-fundamental in philosophy-of-mind (David Chalmers's *hard-problem* articulation, the broader integrated-information-theory and Global Workspace Theory research). The contemplative-traditions research on consciousness operating at scales-beyond-the-individual-brain (Pim van Lommel's near-death-experience research, the broader research on remote-perception). Bernardo Kastrup's *Why Materialism is Baloney* and the broader idealist-philosophy articulations.