Mark Blasini

Thoughts & Outlooks

A conditionalist interpretation of consciousness

Definitions:

1. An event is any change in an object's mode of expression.
2. A code is a configuration of potential modes of expression.
3. To interpret (an event) is to configure (it) as a possible mode of expression within a code.
4. A trace is an event interpreted.
5. A function is any mode of expression configured within a code a priori to any traces.
6. To encode is to configure an event as a trace.
7. Information is the relationship between event and mode of expression encoded in a trace.
8. A domain is an expression of a code as the relationship of information between traces.
9. To process (an event) is to interpret (it) within a domain.
10. A genetic code is a code which, when expressed, conditions the expression of the object to whom the code belongs.
11. An organism is any object capable of interpretation by virtue of its genetic code.
12. A response is a (possible) mode of expression for an organism, as a whole.
13. An organism's reality is its code of responses.
14. To experience (for an organism) is to interpret as a response within (its) reality.
15. An impulse is any event for an organism to experience.
16. A receptor is a specialized configuration of an organism's genetic code that can interpret (or receive) events as impulses.
17. A stimulus is any event a receptor can receive.
18. A memory is the trace of an experience.
19. An archetype is any function within an organism's reality.
20. To learn (for an organism) is to encode an impulse as a memory.
21. Timing is the information learned within memory.
22. Rhythm is the domain of an organism's reality.
23. To sense is to process within a rhythm.
24. To perceive is to experience as a mode of reception.
25. A sensation is the trace of a perception.
26. An organism's world is its code for sensations.
27. To understand (an impulse) is to perceive (it) within an organism's world.
28. A notion is the trace of an understanding.
29. An emotion is any function within an organism's world.
30. To realize (for an organism) is to encode an impulse as a notion.
31. Meaning is the information realized within a notion.
32. Context is the domain of an organism's world.
33. To comprehend is to process within a context.
34. To imagine is to understand as a mode of perception.
35. A perspective is the trace of imagination.
36. A mind is one's code of perspectives.
37. To conceive (of an impulse) is to imagine (it) within one's mind.
38. A concept is the trace of a conception.
39. A disposition is any function within the mind.
40. To abstract is to encode an impulse as a concept.
41. Association is the information abstracted within a concept.
42. Knowledge is the domain of the mind.
43. To recognize is to process within one's knowledge.
44. To consider is to conceive as a mode of imagination.
45. A judgment is the trace of consideration.
46. A worldview is one's code of judgments.
47. To evaluate (an impulse) is to consider (it) within one's worldview.
48. A decision is the trace of an evaluation.
49. A bias is any function within a worldview.
50. To conclude is to encode an impulse as a decision.
51. Reasoning is the information concluded within a decision.
52. A framework is a domain of one's worldview.
53. To think is to process within a framework.
54. To critique is to evaluate as a mode of consideration.
55. A philosophy is the trace of a critique.
56. One's conscience is one's code of philosophies.
57. To choose (an impulse) is to critique (it) within one's conscience.
58. An act is the trace of a choice.
59. A prejudice is any function within one's conscience.
60. To commit is to encode an impulse as an act.
61. Character is the information committed within an act.
62. Morality is the domain of one's conscience.
63. To affirm is to process within one's morality.
64. To adopt is to choose as a mode of critique.
65. An ethics is the trace of an adoption.

1. Existence is conditional.
2. All beings strive to express themselves - to manifest the relationship between their underlying conditions.
3. What a being can express, it will express.

1. Encoding is part of interpreting.
2. Encoding involves a change in the respective domain.
3. A change in the respective domain implies a change in the respective code.
4. An organism is an object capable of experiencing, and thus responding.
5. The only event an organism can experience is an impulse.
6. All responses express how an organism experiences a given impulse.
7. An organism always experiences an impulse as an opportunity for self-expression.
8. What opportunities for self-expression an organism experiences depends on its reality.
9. An organism's reality is dependent on its genetic code.
10. An organism isn't simply an expression of its genetic code, but of what its genetic code conditions - i.e. its mode of interpretation.
11. How an organism experiences expresses its mode of interpretation.