The importance of the ixperiencitness concept for understanding conscious existence
The importance of the ixperiencitness concept for understanding conscious existence
The two major ideas of conscious existence are consciousness itself and how that consciousness gets produced. Consciousness gets produced by the functioning of a body with a particular structure. So conscious existence is all about a consciousness and how it is produced. The problem is that both are always changing. The important thing is that they change in tandem. As the body changes over time so does the consciousness that it produces. Conscious beings (humans) what to know more about themselves. We do not seem to be a specific consciousness nor are we a particular piece of matter either. For ourselves we are a consciousness that is always changing. For others we are part of their consciousness existing as a body. Philosophy has made the issue of the what is the same person over time important. The problem is, is the same person over time the same body or the same consciousness? Both consciousness and the body change over time. In cases of survival of the self through time, life after death, and immortality what are the necessary conditions that cannot change and what are the conditions that can change? If there is no constant then we ask how much can consciousness and the body change and still be you in the end. Some thinker have proposed both extremes that every conscious being is you to there is no real you in the first place. The ixperiencitness concept solves this problem. If I experience a consciousness it is conscious survival for me. If I don't experience consciousness it is not conscious survival for me. We (you) intuitively know what it means to experience a consciousness because we (you) are doing it right now. We also know what it is like when we are not conscious. But we only know it through being aware or conscious of not being aware or conscious for a period of time.
Once the ixperiencitness concept is understood it can be used in place of the same person concept to ask the questions of: Do two different bodies produce the same ixperiencitness? or When does the same body no longer produce the same ixperiencitness? A person in a coma that is no longer conscious no longer has the same ixperiencitness as he had before the coma. He has no ixperiencitness at all. If a person has a brain injury and the structure of the brain gets changed enough he can still be conscious, still have the same body and be the same person, but have a different ixperiencitness.
We can ask three important scientific question that have answers. The first question is how close are the structure and functioning of two separate conscious being? Second, how closely alike are the consciousnesses of the same conscious beings? And third how closely alike are the ixperiencitnesses of the same conscious beings?
The summation of all consciousnesses form an awarecontinuum. The summation of structures and functionings that produce these consciousnesses form a physacontinuum.
