Ashley Barham
12/1/15
I am writing this blog entry on a topic we covered during the very first week of school. It was fascinating and the ideas have stuck with me throughout the semester. I'm talking about the concept of pure consciousness. I'm still not sure exactly what it is, but I don't think anyone knows exactly what it is. It's a hard concept to wrap your head around. A state of consciousness where you're just being. You don't recognize what is happening around you, and you don't understand it. You don't even recognize what you might try to understand. It is a crazy idea to to try to imagine. In class, we talked about maybe being in this state at birth, when we first come out of the womb. This conversation was so strange to me because I had never thought about what I was thinking when I was born. Maybe I wasn't thinking anything- I wasn't capable of forming thoughts about what was happening. Like we discussed in class, it's probably a good thing none of us remember what happened when we were born because from what I've heard from mothers, it is a pretty intense event. I would imagine that we would all be traumatized if we had the memories of our birth. So although I'm not sure what I think about human pure consciousness, I found the information about the wasp interesting. It has no idea what is happening around it, only that it has a task to do. I think that is pure consciousness, when that wasp didn't have the ability to react to any outside interference, it just stayed with the same routine over and over again.
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