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In this context I want to to lay down superficially a few thoughts on the issue of "What is Self-awareness?" in relation to this subject. How can Self-awareness be treated scientifically? The core question was, how to actually determine what and who really matters for the individual. A very important question because after all, it concerns anyone, yet it seems so "trivial" that often it is forgotten about that there are mechanisms in place that "cause things to happen". I want to know, what exactly are those mechanisms?

How deep is your understanding (knowledge that you understand) of life and those complexes which make life "run"? Have you examined the workings of electromagnetic processes?

Every building block of what science has so far been able to term "the Universe" runs on electromagnetical processes.

It starts out with the easiest example. You (female) are in need of that electrical counterpart (male) to create a third (physically: baby). There is no evolution without it.

Now, what one is doing easily is determining that consciousness is beyond the physical law. Which is funny because there is no proof that the metaphysical level (the level that Earth's scientists so far are not able to pin down by machine experiment) is actually not also abiding by electromagnetism.

I say it is very likely that it actually is. If it wasn't then we would encounter a disruption in the process of energy transformation at the brink of zero entropy (re: energy conservation law; thermodynamics). Now zero entropy is when there is a total availability of a system's energy to do work.

Is the individual soul abiding by this electromagnetic scheme as well? The energetic state of a human being, the entire complex being, how does it work?

When a human being wants to move that mass of body cells around with it, a process of energy transformation is taking place, just like with animals and entities without a brain. The human being has to eat and feed - which are electromagnetic processes. The human being is contained and can't walk through walls with the human body.

But what happens when you dream?

When you dream and achieve a state of full self-awareness, it is actually possible for the energetic body to transform to a level of density of that which you want to cross (re: expansion) over into. If you scientifically start dealing with your dreams you will start knowing this by application rather than theory. How does it work?

Self-awareness prompts me to ask: How about the self? What is the "self"? Is it really "yours"?

The self out of which the ability "to ego" arises (yes, "to ego" because the ego is that which the self produces and revolves around the self. Whereas the self is at its core able to expand and contract, the ability "to ego" is like the layers around the onion core. There is a lot to say about this (especially egomaniac essays!!), but not now.) exists.

Or does it? I go so far as in saying that it is the self which makes the communication between entities about inventions possible. Here I go back to the monkey and the mirror. The monkey (bless it!) does understand the mirror's function. So does the human. The human also knows who put the mirror in the cage and, what is most impressive, the human asks "how does one build a mirror?" and then uses it for correction purposes of the self (look inside and put on make-up), for figuring out processes and for gaining wealth (put a patent on it and sell it - mundane mercurial trade) et al. The question that arises is: When has the last monkey built a mirror for any of these purposes?

If your self exists, does your consciousness exist? It seems to, doesn't it? If you say it does, is it down to electromagnetical processes or is it "something entirely different"?

The question that has to be asked is, how is it to be determined what and who really matters to a human being of a specific self (= an individual soul)?

Defer C. Rains

those were easy.....give some hard ones