If considering consciousness gives you a headache, you may be taking your consciousness too seriously. Get soothing comic relief by considering the trioon scheme.
TAKE THE TRIOON CHALLENGE
Here are five statements that express some strong opinions about reality and our place in it. How many are within your comfort zone?
1- While the universe may have been started by a godlike act of agency, all events we can know about that followed and those yet to happen will follow the rules of causality.
The statement is agnostic about a Creator God but does not support the notion of a daily deity or Intercessory God.
2- Despite how we may judge people, actions or events, good and evil are not cosmic forces.
Without mankind, how would evil be manifested? Tornados? Badgers? Mildew?
3- Mankind evolved along with the rest of the Animal Kingdom without divine intentions, alien intervention or spiritual manipulation.
If we concede that other animals share much of our mental experience, we could reveal a single additional mental talent that makes our civilization possible.
4- Our knowledge of the world comes from our perception and our ability to reconsider what we have perceived.
What about extra-sensory perception? Are there ether-tickles? Maybe. I'm not betting on it.
5- Any sense of personal identity we can possess must start by owning our survival skills and instinctive drives even if only to deny them or rise above them later.
If we reject our mortal physicality, should there be anything left to consider?
How many of these opinions are you inclined to agree with? If your answer is all five, then the trioon scheme should pose no challenge at all. Where else can a self-respecting self-denying physical-materialist find an acceptable definition of what we all know is there? On the other hand, if all five earned a rejection, the trioon schematic can still offer a daring description of our mortal mental operations. I won't tell anyone they cannot have a soul or a God as their co-pilot. It's not the point. Nor is it what truly divides humanity. The Great Divide challenges us to overcome what Nature has primed us to believe about ourselves. When searching our interior, we're looking for what we expect to find. The trioon scheme offers a different interior layout that gives the same result. We harvest our vision and hearing with three distinct steps of perceptual experience. Trioon's whimsical and un-provable assertions should at least expose that the existing assertions it challenges are equally whimsical and un-provable.
If you have strolled in looking for semi-humorous politically topical Progressive Rock Concept Albums, they're here. I invite you to stroll through some trioonity. If you came curious about trioon stuff, there is some whacky music to check out. I guarantee an intriguing possibility of how we think and perceive. The music is prog-rock with a silly edge and has no warranty.
That's it. Music and Trioonity. One of them should work out. Thank you for visiting.
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