Consiousness - good article I think

[eyeoneblack]

Check this out:

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-hu...ousness-works/

(edit: what follows is not at all an abstract of the article, just some thoughts that came to mind as I read it...)

We are conscious because we can deliberate over options and decide which is best, or even doubt ourselves. This creates the illusion that we are conscious. Athletes and musicians, well, anyone, for that matter, knows what being ’in the zone’ is. What it feels like when the 3-pointers fall through the basket again and again, when the improvised notes click beautifully, when decisions are natural and good.

Whenever I have experience the ’in the zone’ phenomenon I relate it as a direct connection that bypasses the deliberating mind. You don’t think about it. It’s done before you have time to think about it.

But I’ll have to think about this further and integrate the OBE into it; but for now, I’ll lean on the Eastern knowledge that, in fact, we are not, by nature, conscious at all.