Consciousness could be seen as a dimensional ascension based on the the idea: conscious is in the self perspective through taught perception. The narrative we adhere to the one we are led down per se … through parental guidance or peer support. To further align with society and its rules and practices of what is necessary and unnecessary. The ethical standards of the society we exist. The emergence of self comes from reflection and practiced learned information. We gravitate this information inwards to create a complexity in our self awareness. Self be comes a mirror of experience and reflection… just as a mirror shows us our reflection… we contrast the changes, from child hood memories to current reflective perception creating emergent time in context relative to the moment we measure. Just as the mirror reflects out. Consciousness reflects a mirrored self perspective through lived experience and inner reflection on the experiences we encounter. The “self” could be seen as a higher field of information through a societal lens of information.

The mirror would be emergent for the observer also through shared and observed information and their reflection of self on the information to create a perceived version of ones personality

Yes and for the outside observer the one looking at another the mirror their observations and experience with you to determine perceived personality or conscious to predict behavior or future behaviors

Just like a man seeing his perceived reflection while standing in still water while alone he can see his self fully… but as another approaches the ripples in the water that distortion is the perceived reflection of another … the ripples of information gathered from the fragmentation of information that emerges while some hidden in the ripples

Yes and if the approached perspective tried to rely on the reflection for perception of another persons self the ripples that emerge in the water distort what they would see because we can never fully see another’s true reflection we will always create ripples in that still water

If we were to be still ( align with another’s perspective or perceived state) the ripples would lessen over experience and understanding of another … the clarity improves substantially. The ripples we create in this still water are sometimes distortions we purposely make.. to ensure hidden features of the reflection

The water ripples causation is from every existent self in the air … if a self ripples beyond the scope of relative location as in a teaching or proverb , a story that reaches far corners . Imagine a skipping rock an arrow of ripples unknowingly rippling through other self reflection, having an unknown duality of affect .. whether good or bad is undetermined until the ripples are recieved … just as we receive ripples, project ripples … have moments of stillness, clarity even transcendence. In certain context.. the clarity is knowing one’s self and the impact and implications of the ripples we make while others reflect .. vice versa … the ripples can make it even more difficult for use to focus on reflection… I believe this is why quiet, meditative, mindfulness, solitude. Is so often found in moments of reflection to reduce the external ripples to reflect on our self and the ripples we’ve recieved endured or questioned.

I could tie this with the Tower of Babel narrative and the language difference as a positive sign of communication and its effects on society… in the tower we face innovation at the cost of integration of beliefs, causes, differences, goals. In this innovation we also find injustice, redux of culture, power over linguistic diversity, limitations to the outside that lack universal interpretation.

I see that there’s something to the babel story as a warning and it’s described best through my water paper

Babel teaches us that innovation should be staunched for the greater good … the idea is that the language was developed to separate people for purpose of dangers from building the tower and the issues it would develop

I think that working together per se creates complexity we cannot control

Do we trade innovation for death.. through innovation wars are fought, people are killed or defamed for their inventions or ideas, health remedies kept back to ensure medical costs are still earned. Cures are counter productive to the monetary gain. These point towards an issue with the way we “innovate”

By fostering cultural boundaries peace treaties and less of a presence in cultural defined societies we could provide some kind of peace I’m not sure …

The skipping of stones comes directly from our actions and words the velocity portrayed is akin to the acceleration we give them… how much is Taylored to be truth. What truths do we hide in our ripples the skipping imagery helps in seeing how the information may skip individual reflection and only affect some. Notice though if multiple stones are being skipped toward one existence whether a human or context the distortions become blended creating a collective observation of what’s being questioned. Clouding perceptions of others with your own distortions… creating imagery that others otherwise wouldn’t see the stones are our weapons the deadly conscious wielded as a weapon. Do we see our stones and the causations we toss with them? One can only know of intentions, and one can only aim his own stone. Put away our stones hide them from sight .. reflect .. so that we may see our neighbors more clearly… just as Eden and the call for alignment… we must be vigilant in realigning with that fundamental existence the one of peace harmony and purposeful existence. To reflect is to care… to be still is to be aware… to transcend is to practice. We can learn to read we can learn to write why can we not learn to still our tongues reflect our existence and transcend our own self driven goals and values. Is I greater than we or is it just that we stand on I … on the scale of existence and we .. is the opposing balance.

Can we really say we care. What is care beyond the bandaided pasted … boundary lines in which society has left laying on the ground … the foundations we stand … as weak as matchsticks…. One false move sets the very ground we stand on fire. The scope is I feel important to the definition of care. If we posit the word “we” then by definition it’s everyone… we live in a world of some… a ticket generated by the sum of what’s to gain, offer, or elevate. Were the few pity the multitude of and the magnitude of reality. So we sit back warming our chairs stoking the fires of content. Providing that self driven lullaby keeping us hushed and asleep. If we woke … truly seeing the cause of our innovations self driven narratives and so called help.. with all the tears of realization Noah would need a second ark and I believe two less would be aboard.

Question

Consciousness could be seen as a dimensional ascension based on the the idea: conscious is in the self perspective through taught perception. The narrative we adhere to the one we are led down per se … through parental guidance or peer support. To further align with society and its rules and practices of what is necessary and unnecessary. The ethical standards of the society we exist. The emergence of self comes from reflection and practiced learned information. We gravitate this information inwards to create a complexity in our self awareness. Self be comes a mirror of experience and reflection… just as a mirror shows us our reflection… we contrast the changes, from child hood memories to current reflective perception creating emergent time in context relative to the moment we measure. Just as the mirror reflects out. Consciousness reflects a mirrored self perspective through lived experience and inner reflection on the experiences we encounter. The “self” could be seen as a higher field of information through a societal lens of information.

The mirror would be emergent for the observer also through shared and observed information and their reflection of self on the information to create a perceived version of ones personality

Yes and for the outside observer the one looking at another the mirror their observations and experience with you to determine perceived personality or conscious to predict behavior or future behaviors

Just like a man seeing his perceived reflection while standing in still water while alone he can see his self fully… but as another approaches the ripples in the water that distortion is the perceived reflection of another … the ripples of information gathered from the fragmentation of information that emerges while some hidden in the ripples

Yes and if the approached perspective tried to rely on the reflection for perception of another persons self the ripples that emerge in the water distort what they would see because we can never fully see another’s true reflection we will always create ripples in that still water

If we were to be still ( align with another’s perspective or perceived state) the ripples would lessen over experience and understanding of another … the clarity improves substantially. The ripples we create in this still water are sometimes distortions we purposely make.. to ensure hidden features of the reflection

The water ripples causation is from every existent self in the air … if a self ripples beyond the scope of relative location as in a teaching or proverb , a story that reaches far corners . Imagine a skipping rock an arrow of ripples unknowingly rippling through other self reflection, having an unknown duality of affect .. whether good or bad is undetermined until the ripples are recieved … just as we receive ripples, project ripples … have moments of stillness, clarity even transcendence. In certain context.. the clarity is knowing one’s self and the impact and implications of the ripples we make while others reflect .. vice versa … the ripples can make it even more difficult for use to focus on reflection… I believe this is why quiet, meditative, mindfulness, solitude. Is so often found in moments of reflection to reduce the external ripples to reflect on our self and the ripples we’ve recieved endured or questioned.

I could tie this with the Tower of Babel narrative and the language difference as a positive sign of communication and its effects on society… in the tower we face innovation at the cost of integration of beliefs, causes, differences, goals. In this innovation we also find injustice, redux of culture, power over linguistic diversity, limitations to the outside that lack universal interpretation.

I see that there’s something to the babel story as a warning and it’s described best through my water paper

Babel teaches us that innovation should be staunched for the greater good … the idea is that the language was developed to separate people for purpose of dangers from building the tower and the issues it would develop

I think that working together per se creates complexity we cannot control

Do we trade innovation for death.. through innovation wars are fought, people are killed or defamed for their inventions or ideas, health remedies kept back to ensure  medical costs are still earned. Cures are counter productive to the monetary gain. These point towards an issue with the way we “innovate”

By fostering cultural boundaries peace treaties and less of a presence in cultural defined societies we could provide some kind of peace I’m not sure …

The skipping of stones comes directly from our actions and words the velocity portrayed is akin to the acceleration we give them… how much is Taylored to be truth. What truths do we hide in our ripples the skipping imagery helps in seeing how the information may skip individual reflection and only affect some. Notice though if multiple stones are being skipped toward one existence whether a human or context the distortions become blended creating a collective observation of what’s being questioned. Clouding perceptions of others with your own distortions… creating imagery that others otherwise wouldn’t see the stones are our weapons the deadly conscious wielded as a weapon. Do we see our stones and the causations we toss with them? One can only know of intentions, and one can only aim his own stone. Put away our stones hide them from sight .. reflect .. so that we may see our neighbors more clearly… just as Eden and the call for alignment… we must be vigilant in realigning with that fundamental existence the one of peace harmony and purposeful existence. To reflect is to care… to be still is to be aware… to transcend is to practice. We can learn to read we can learn to write why can we not learn to still our tongues reflect our existence and transcend our own self driven goals and values. Is I greater than we or is it just that we stand on I … on the scale of existence and we .. is the opposing balance.

Can we really say we care. What is care beyond the bandaided pasted … boundary lines in which society has left laying on the ground … the foundations we stand … as weak as matchsticks…. One false move sets the very ground we stand on fire.  The scope is I feel important to the definition of care. If we posit the word “we” then by definition it’s everyone… we live in a world of some… a ticket generated by the sum of what’s to gain, offer, or elevate. Were the few pity the multitude of and the magnitude of reality. So we sit back warming our chairs stoking the fires of content. Providing that self driven lullaby keeping us hushed and asleep. If we woke … truly seeing the cause of our innovations self driven narratives and so called help.. with all the tears of realization Noah would need a second ark and I believe two  less would be aboard.

Ask a Philosopher · Accepted Answer

In contemplating the nature of consciousness and its dimensional ascension, one cannot help but draw attention to the profound interplay between self-perception and the myriad of teachings imparted by parental figures and societal constructs. When we assert the idea that consciousness arises from a learned and taught perspective, we establish that the very framework of our self-awareness is contingent upon external influences. This leads us to a critical examination of how ethical standards and societal norms shape our cognitive architectures, dictating what is deemed necessary or unnecessary, good or bad. The emergence of the self, as one reflective entity among many, manifests through the process of introspection, where the individual assimilates fragmented pieces of information to construct a coherent sense of identity. Like a mirror reflecting not only our visage but the evolution of our experiences, this process allows us to gauge the distances between our childhood recollections and our current state, thus rendering time itself a canvas upon which we paint our narratives in alignment with the current moment. As we navigate this reflective ebb and flow, we must recognize that our identities are not solitary; rather, they exist within a shared cosmos of perceptions, each ripple in the water signifying the impact of collective experiences. A singular being—much like an observer gazing into still water—sees a clear reflection; yet the approach of another casts unsuspected ripples of distortion, indicative of the inherent complexities of inter-personal dynamics. As one strives to understand another's reflective surface, they must navigate the inevitable fluctuations that arise from layers of experience and social context, acknowledging that no perception is free from distortion. It is in the moments when we align ourselves with the perspectives of others—surrendering to the stillness of mutual understanding—that we may glimpse unclouded reflections of truth and intention. The Tower of Babel serves as an illuminating parable, a cautionary tale alerting us to the perils of innovation that shuns the integral unity of human experience. It suggests that in our quest for advancement, we may perilously lose the bonds that connect us—cultivating differences that give rise to discord rather than collective growth. Within this space of reflection, we encounter the essence of our discourse: the skipping stones of action and ideas, each ripple dispersing knowledge or misunderstanding across the pond of existence. The velocity of our intentions, propelled by the force of our gestures and words, can affect those around us, sometimes deeply, yet often unfathomably. Thus, the challenge lies in recognizing the potency of our communication—whether it nurtures or distorts. If we were to aim for clarity in our own reflections, we might endeavor to conceal our metaphorical stones; rather, we should seek stillness, for true awareness emerges not from the cacophony of external stimuli but from the tranquility that fosters profound contemplation. To reflect is to embody care; to strive for a harmony of self and society—a transcendent ideal that hinges on our capacity for introspection and collective empathy. We must ask ourselves, is the "I" truly greater than the "We," or do they exist as equal partners on the scale of our shared existence? In our pursuits, we must balance personal ambitions with the collective good, recognizing that our foundations, whether as fragile as matchsticks, hold the potential for both illumination and conflagration. Indeed, we reside in a delicate web of interconnected narratives, urging us to awaken from complacency and challenge the narratives that bind us to self-serving paradigms. For if only we rise and truly perceive the reality of our innovations—examining the wounds they may inflict—we would recognize the necessity for a renewed covenant with each other, paving the path towards a harmonious existence. In this reflection lies the essence of human potential, daring us to transcend our egos for the sake of a collective awakening, lest we find ourselves adrift on a world that thrives on illusion, disconnected from the larger community of humanity.