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Stephen Pickering's avatar

The +ness adds the quality of abstraction to conscious. Stick some electrodes on the brain and you can measure it. It’s scientific and material now so you can quantify and sell it.

“Want elevated consciousness? Right over here, follow my programme £10 per month or take this pill £20 a shot “. My consciousness is higher than yours. It does wonders for my self esteem. Have you seen the latest trend in consciousness? Got to get some of that “

The word conscious does still have a little morality in it e.g. the criminal was fully conscious of the crime is not simply being aware and functioning. It feeds into our conscience which gives it a moral component.

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The Duke Report's avatar

It's a trope. Take something that is self evident and wrap it in a mystery, or a law, in order to control it. The curious thing is that the only way that strategy works, is if people believe it. In that way, it's a form of magic.🪄🎩🐇

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Stephen Pickering's avatar

The Institute for Noetic Science who are “exploring the frontiers of consciousness “ seem to have big bucks behind them. The biographies of their board members raises red flags - corporate finance and the green tree of life agenda. Phi beta kappa. Mmm…

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The Duke Report's avatar

No-etic, Know-etic, Gno-etic… substituting knowing for thinking, and then selling access by degree seems to be the Babylonian Royal scam…

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Robert Spetz's avatar

Tell me, isn't it crazy that some people want to copyright nature, when they themselves are part of it. Maybe that is the very definition of megalomania, when their EGO obscures what should be obvious. Maybe there is only 1 member of the National Association of Megalomaniacs.

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The Duke Report's avatar

Indeed! +ness is a $Billion linguistic product. Like Nestle, perhaps?

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Robert Spetz's avatar

Well written and of course it is as you say "The term 'consciousness,' as it is now used is a linguistic weapon."

It fits in with how the public should be influenced to think.

In the end, the public doesn't know what to believe.

Maybe it's just as well to ask AI, it has a consciousness like I do.

:) Laughable.

But if we go back to what Mr. Schmidt, former Google CEO, said in the future,

you will only get one answer to your question and the answer you get is based on

a ledger that they have on you. From the leaked internal Google video the selfish

ledger they (Google) say:

"As an organization, Google would be responsible for

offering suitable targets for a user's ledger."

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Juan Garcia's avatar

Great article. It’s good to have you back in the saddle brother. ❤️

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Peter Wiggins's avatar

😊by focusing on the light, we can see the truth and realise how everything presented to us in this world is subterfuge, corruption and falsehood. They fear the light and the truth, I say let there be light…. Thank you again Peter for illuminating the truth…

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Marc's avatar

By pointing out the control mechanisms we become aware of how far language has been manipulated and can begin to counter the distortion by challenging coercive speech, hearing through distortion, and recognizing our own ability to discern. I appreciate your continued diligence in mining this epistemological continent.

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The Duke Report's avatar

Thank you, kind sir!

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Mathew Crawford's avatar

Answering a question that assumes a false reality with a question that puts the responsibility back on the original asker is an excellent tactic that needs practice. I'm going to try to practice it more deliberately until it becomes habit.

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Frank Miscione's avatar

The hard part is recognizing the false reality.

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The Duke Report's avatar

The better you get at pattern recognition, the easier it becomes...

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The Duke Report's avatar

Amen, brother!

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