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Wow. I should be clear here. I'm not a doctor of any kind and was working with the idea as I went to a degree. I certainly cannnot discuss physical consciousness to the level that you can. I did predicate my statements on belief but have a tendancy to be a bit matter-of-fact in presentation. My apologies. I don't have any expectation of convincing you of anything. I am just another guy with another opinion. We each get one.
I am not talking pure faith either, except in that the people who have experienced hightened levels of awareness have to be believed. The experience cannot be imparted, but with enough people reporting that this can be achieved, and the soul apprehended consciously through meditiation. Ken wilbur likened this discussion to looking through a telescope. You have to look for yourself or believe the people who have looked. Saturn has rings. If you don't look you don't get a vote. Thats the way this pesky apriori stuff works.
The way this fits in with other theories and correlations is a part of how we form our world view. When we see things represented on many levels we can at least work with the idea that they exist where they can't be immediatly evident. Its an assumption but not an outright guess. Death is as big as it gets for a human.
The idea of the observer is as old as man himself. It doesn't make it right or wrong but something that is either sought or not.
If I achieve knowledge of my own soul separate from my body you are either going to believe it or not (my guess is not). If I could show yours to you then Rasputini would have to believe you. I got my head handed to me for calling it a hypothesis once because its doest'n qualify scientifically but it represents one possible and plausable theory.
How many people have to report an out of body or death experience? That is consciousness without what we call physical form. Most people believe that some form of consciousness does survive physical death. What survives is conscious or they would not be able to report it when they were revived. Are they all lying to prop up their belief systems? I guess that is plausable, but not provavble.
We all have our own view and we come here to discuss it. If I was out of line, espeacially on the autim thing, my bad. My understanding has always been that there is more going on than can be expressed. I don't know what you consider fully conscious or its clinical definition but I wass not intending a clinical analysis, just speculation.
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