dialog toward a law of the conservation of consciousness

But since consciousness is an artifact of matter and energy, when both are disentangled from a being why should consciousness remain? September 26 Roy Nice try Hermes Trismegistus (who is now dead -so he got that right- :-)) and so far has not made contact via the etherial internet) but up to now we are able to quantify matter and its transference into energy but "consciousness" is still an unknown and so cannot be factored into this rationale .... not to say that we will not be able to quantify "consciousness" at some stage of evolution though ... September 27 Andrew Bellon @ the cynical fatalists: either consciousness is epiphenominal, or it is fundamental to the nature and construct of reality. Take your pick. Or at least be like Schrôdinger's cat, and be both dead and alive to the possibility of particlenature/wavenature duality to consciousness locally superposed and in certain altered states, and at "death," separated into non-locality. And roy, not only are the fundamentals of consciousness unknown, but so are those of matter. September 27 Bob I pick the hypothesis for which evidence exists. September 27 at 6:24am · Like Andrew Bellon So do I. September 27 Bob If your fundamental axiom is "All is one", why would evidence matter? September 27 Andrew Bellon Call the mystery what you will. All is One, TOE, the unified field....as Einstein noted, there is an aspect of illusion to substantiality. How it is sustained from moment to moment is not a question asked in the West. September 27 Andrew Bellon I have seen enough strangeness in this world...and even if that were not the case, as lawyers love to say, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We simply inhabit a reality where even the number of unknowns is unknown. September 28 Andrew Bellon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitterbewegung Zitterbewegung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zitterbewegung (English: "trembling motion", from German) is a theoretical rapid motion of elementary particles, in particular electrons, that obey the Dirac equation. The existence of such motion was first proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1930 as a result of his analysis of the wave packet solution… EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG