CONSCIOUSNESS

What is consciousness? It is a function whose minimum limit indicates life. When endowed with a soul, it not only becomes aware but also wills.

The soul is the power of will, a force that makes consciousness willful.

The power of consciousness is "life." Life is what sustains awareness. The power of life generates consciousness.

What is life like? It grows and develops. The most minimal growth and development are dynamic changes. The most minimal dynamic change (activity-function) is the ability to discern differences. So, how does the power of life manifest consciousness? Through the ability to differentiate.

The most minimal activity of consciousness is differentiate.

However, the awareness of differences is due to the influence of "existence" that alters perception so that its "existence" is being awared because of a changing in consciousness. Thus, there are two aspects of consciousness:

1. Consciousness differentiates, making differences apparent, and thus differences are being awared.
   〰 This is due to the influence of an initial push (soul).

2. Consciousness is altered by the influence of the "existence" of something (like light reflecting an object into the eyes), making the difference being awared.

So, consciousness recognizes changes because the soul's push alters it, enabling the recognition of differences, like a camera system detecting gradient differences or a camera altered by light, thus printing gradients (differences) that make something recognized (because it can be differentiated from others).

Consciousness is life that seeing the different. Without the ability (function) to differentiate, there is no "awareness," even if it is only aware of the "existence" because consciousness is altered from within by the soul or altered (imprinted) from outside.

Scientifically acceptable and philosophically, even though detached from science, it contains its universal truth.

A philosophical language providing a nuanced structure of meaning that can be programmed.

Thus, from a scientific perspective, it aligns with contemporary philosophy that is realistic and objective while also having the autonomy of universal truth that doesn't need to be confirmed by science first. Although it must be related to realistic evidence, which doesn't always come from science, but from tracing its absolute logical consequences.

The Foundation of Cause and Effect

Why can logical consequences be stronger than empirical evidence due to their foundational nature underlying cause and effect? This does not apply to relative logical consequences, which are actually conclusions at the level of cause and effect itself.

However, absolute logical consequences are truly the strongest conclusions because their realism, objectivity, and universality underpin the cause and effect of empiricism.

The Basis of Cause and Effect

Why or is there something that underpins cause and effect related to absolute logical consequences?

What are the characteristics of absolute logical consequences that become the basis of cause and effect? Isn’t cause and effect already the foundation of reality, so since cause and effect are the structure of the empirical, then empirical evidence is the strongest proof (even though it can change)?

1. Empirical evidence is not the strongest proof, not because empirical evidence can change at any time.

2. Empirical evidence is not weak evidence (empirical evidence is strong evidence), and its strength is not because the proof is through observation, which is considered closest.

3. Empirical evidence is not the strongest proof because its foundation is cause and effect, which is the foundation of reality❓

OBJECTIVITY.

The strength of the empirical lies in its objectivity, not just because its truth is relative (cause and effect are considered weak in consistency) but because its consistency is easy to observe, making the pattern of consistency easy to realize, and its practical utility value is general (not just certain people can use it or recognize its reality).

However, this does not mean that the conclusions from absolute logical consequences are below empirical evidence. Instead, because absolute logical consequences underpin cause and effect, absolute logical consequences are stronger and even the strongest as evidence compared to empirical evidence. Why❓

SIMULTANEITY.

Because the dependent relationship in absolute (logical) consequences is no longer based on cause and effect but rather simultaneous continuity.

• 👉 EMPIRICAL. It's no longer "if this, then that," which can change between this and that depending on the situation and conditions (relative - not absolute), but rather...

• 👉 ABSOLUTE CONSEQUENCES
  That "if this, then that must exist."

Here lies the strength of absolute consequences compared to empirical evidence, although? Without empirical evidence (without relative evidence), universal evidence will not be detected.

THOSE WHO CAN DISCOVER (CONCLUDE) ABSOLUTE CONSEQUENCES INCLUDE EMPIRICAL (not conflicting with relativity) & ALSO INCLUDE UNIVERSAL (the boundaries of relativity are clearly known).

Of course, further discussion is needed on how from a narrow context (relative cause and effect) can be concluded more broadly (universally), which will be discussed in the next writing.

At least here the discussion of absolute consequences and cause and effect (relative consequences) can strengthen how conclusions can be drawn on the main topic of "what is consciousness" even though it is still very minimal, because it has not yet reached the point of discussing the question "if cameras or computer systems can differentiate, are cameras and computer systems also conscious like humans?"

But at least we recognize in our own context what "consciousness" is, so even though we cannot recognize consciousness elsewhere, at least the function of consciousness is known to recognize how conscious and willful we are, which also needs to be scrutinized, and we can be wary of our own attitudes.