Humantruth - SupraC - Branch 8, The Way We Think - continued
In this reality, the conscious mind not only thinks on one level only, but is also bombarded with all kinds of contradictory influences and pressured by competing forces. In any case it cannot encompass truth. What the self does is to make decisions, informed by the conscious mind which it prefers, keeping to the moral code of conscience only where that involves no disadvantage. In cases of little stimulation and/or heavy conditioning, or in response to serious abuse, the self can be persuaded to do almost anything to those seen as the enemy, or to the enemy's loved ones or property.
In the world as it is, limited human minds sustain the Machine as it falsely conditions human minds. The direct opposite would be true of the supraconscious population of a humantrue world.
Truth is the postconscious mind's function, and to this end it considers everything totally without unwarranted bias, and reasons on six levels. On level one the postconscious weighs the conclusions reached by the conscious and passes them on to level 2 where they are taken apart and widely and fully correlated to that level's optimum, when a mass of further conclusions is reached. These are then passed to level 3 where the same but more advanced process occurs, and so on until, at level 6, true conclusions are reached, including humantruth, for which we already have enough information. To distinguish it from conscious thinking I call this process intellation, whose ultimate aim, when all information has been received and subjected to optimum reason, is absolute truth.
A postconscious truth results when utterly exhaustive reasoning in every possible quarter (prompted and encouraged by conscious questioning) attracts positively affirmative signals to a particular proposition until those signals reach optimum accumulated strength and so confirm the proposition's truth. For us to know these truths we have to be supraconscious, whereby postconscious truths are taken into consciousness and, eventually being able to satisfy all questions, are accepted as true. The limited conscious mind's self-concocted 'truths', on the other hand, are immature conclusions or propositions which answer only some questions (the others, which it cannot answer, are ignored) which take account of level one reasoning only, and thus, although some may be straightforward enough to actually be true, are otherwise unlikely to be so and cannot be relied upon.
Postconscious truth can be relied upon, however, but it is all but closed off from consciousness and, in any case, a self which is not supraconscious would not immediately recognise or acknowledge the significance of truths that were passed to it by the postconscious. The presently normal conscious mind already accepts the baldly stated moral edicts of conscience, such as the Christian ten commandments but, though recognising them as desirable it considers them to be generally unattainable ideals. The reason for this is, again, that the conscious mind brings these genuine truths down to the only level it knows - level one - where it gives them the same value as its own 'semi-truths' with which they have to compete. In this way the true precept 'it is wrong to lie or deceive', becomes 'tell the truth when you can, but tell lies where, in your circumstances, it is of advantage to do so'. This goes against pure reason in that it establishes a chaotic situation where nothing and nobody can be fully trusted. Yet it is the norm, as shown by the fact that individuals who are guilty of serious crimes usually deny their guilt. It is expected that they shall do so, and accepted that a long and complicated court case is warranted to decide rightly that they are guilty or wrongly that they are innocent. This is the conscious mind giving priority to self-interest. The supraconscious individual would be bound by truth to admit his guilt.
In this light our society is shown to be backward. The way forward is to convince our conscious minds that they are limited to level one, and that in order to be truly human we need to identify with the postconscious's six levels. To do so is to fulfil our chief faculty, intellect. Common supraconsciousness would bring all to awareness of human truth, meaning that all are agreed as to the practical essentials to do with living together in contented harmony, though they may freely express their feelings and talents in all sorts of abstract but benign ways.
The way to human truth is supraconscious intellation, a matter of cooperation between the conscious and postconscious minds, The conscious repeatedly puts questions to the postconscious which, after a process of unconscious correlation, provides true answers. This dialogue uses the same channel down which the postconscious already passes the 'intuitions' of conscience. A difficulty is that the postconscious mind uses a different code from conscious language, and clearly this complex code has to be somehow translated into simpler language on its way through that channel.
This translation presents big difficulties. True intellation is hard to convert into conscious understanding because of the problem of accurately translating the postconscious code into conscious language, where the former is a highly complex code which carries a multiplicity of correlated threads of meaning and the latter is a language of inappropriate, relatively few and clumsy words which are able simultaneously to carry a much smaller number of threads of meaning. It is this which makes difficult the writing, and perhaps the reading, of articles such as this.
Intellation is a matter of the conscious mind submitting all of its level one conclusions to the postconscious and, however long it takes, of accepting and abiding by the postconscious true conclusions at level 6. In the interim, the individual behaves with all possible circumspection. The conscious is responsible for the individual's behaviour, but submits absolutely to the guidance of the postconscious. In determining its actions and forming its opinions and beliefs the conscious needs to be honest to the postconscious - to work with it diligently and responsibly. Faced with making a certain decision, until the conscious is assured by the postconscious as to the true path to take, it shall take no action nor adopt any opinion. In consequence, whilst the Machine prevails, the supraconscious individual shall represent hope for humantrue society in the future but, in terms of the present false reality, is bound to be rather indecisive and ineffective.
The first objective of supraconsciousness is to establish truth in the whole minds of all people. The second objective is concurrently to establish a humantrue society or framework of life. That both objectives be achieved is necessary because it is only possible for humanity to be humanly true if its social reality, as well as its collective mind, is also humantrue. Once these objectives have been achieved the intense striving of human intellation shall be over, having accomplished its purpose. It can then tick over, enough to sustain the status quo while the practical thinking of the conscious, when duty's done, may be applied to expressing the many abstract talents and skills of humanity.
List of Branch articles. in no particular reading sequence:
PREVIOUS :1. The Nature and State of the Human Race: 2 : Truth - No-Go Area : 3. Facing Yourself: 4. Explaining the Mind : 5. Moral Mind : 6. Great Men: 7. Comment Pinker :
CURRENT : 8. The Way We Think :
REMAINING : 9. Sanity for Humanity : 10. Evolution of Mind : 11. Free Thinker View : 12. Reality : 13. Understanding Consciousness : 14. Bottom Line : 15. Brain-Mind Relations: 16. Open Letter to Philosophers : 17. The Mind and Philosophy : 18. Self Twixt 2 Minds: 19. The Holographic Dimension:20. Transhumanism Transcended: 21. Mind, Will and Self
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