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SOME THOUGHTS ON CONSCIOUSNESS, PERCEPTION, AND REALITY
by Adhanom Andemicael
10 August 2003, posted 26 August 2003

THE PERCEPTION OF MOTION

When the mind experiences a quale such as "color," it experiences this quale at a single moment of consciousness (i.e., at a single *point* in mental time). We know that the mind senses motion. But how exactly does it sense it ? *When* exactly does it sense it ? I suggest that consciousness senses motion at a single moment of awareness (i.e., at a single *point* in mental time).

A succession of individual "moments of awareness" makes up a "period of consciousness."

If a moving entity appears to be "motionless" at every moment of awareness, the entity is *always* seen as an "object at rest." The mind never perceives the entity as being an "object in motion." I suggest that there is only one way that consciousness can experience an entity as being an "object in motion." The mind must perceive the entity as being "in motion" at each point in mental time. The entity must appear to be "moving" at each moment of awareness.

THE NATURE OF SPACETIME

Spacetime does not exist concretely. This 4-dimensional structure is a "quantum entity" and is therefore unreal when it is not being observed by a mind.

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Adhanom Andemicael