You are self luminous.
Simply put self luminous means not lit by another.
But neither do you light anything else but your self.
Further the light of self luminousness is not the light of mere
being, but the light of knowing.
Mere being means to simply exist without knowing one exists.
All use of the term being here under means mere being.
More deeply self luminous is when being and knowing are one and the
same event.
A rock can be lit by the sun and still neither the sun nor the rock
KNOW anything about themselves or each other.
But a self which is self luminousness, knows about itself through
that facility. The self knows that it exists with perfect certainty,
and it knows that it knows, and it can see itself knowing, seeing and
being perfectly certain.
Take the rock for a moment, a real rock in a real physical universe
that exists whether or not anyone is there to see it. There is no such
thing, as the world is a dream, but let's pretend we don't know that.
That rock is an instantiation, a complete and perfect embodiment,
of everything there is to know about that rock.
The sheer amount of knowledge contained in that rock just being
there is staggering.
To completely understand and know everything there is to know about
that rock, you would have to have mastered geology, chemistry, atomic
and quantum physics and probably all of space time mechanics including
special and general relativity.
Even if you knew everything there was to know about that rock, you
probably still couldn't create one yourself, so the rock has you beat,
as it is sitting there already at the finish line of being created and
embodying every single thing you could ever hope to know about it.
But does the rock know anything?
No. The rock is being an instantiation of knowledge, a reference
implementation of that knowledge, but the rock itself does not know
anything, about anything, let alone about being a rock.
BEING (an instantiation of) knowledge and KNOWING knowledge are two
completely different things.
Take a learning machine for example. You know, a computer with a
couple of video cameras, and set it out to learn things.
It comes back with reams and reams of data about what is out there,
what their relationships are, what might cause what induced from what
followed what.
This learning machine might even turn its cameras on itself and
learn something of its own make up and how it functions.
THE FACT THAT IT FUNCTIONS DOES NOT MEAN IT KNOWS HOW IT FUNCTIONS.
It is able TO function, but that is being, not knowing.
A car can drive like the wind, but can it build another car?
So this machine is set out to study our rock, and it comes back
with lots of symbolic data representing knowledge about the rock. That
is knowledge. The machine is being a machine, but it is learning
knowledge about the rock. After a while the machine will know more
about the rock than the rock does, because the rock doesn't know
anything period.
You see how it works then in the physical universe. You have an
object that is being there, and a SECOND object comes along and is the
effect of the first object, and the second object changes state BECAUSE
of the first object, and that change in state acts as a causal imprint
on the second object that derives from the nature of the first object.
The changes in state in the second object are a symbol for
knowledge about the first object, an encoding if you will of truths
found about the referent which is the first object.
Thus the referent is being, and the symbol is knowing about the
referent. Notice the symbol, being just another object, is BEING
a symbol and doesn't know anything about itself!.
Thus both the referent and the symbol are BEING, but some of the
being of the symbol is a result of a causal imprint from the referent,
and so the symbol KNOWS just that much about the referent and no more
but nothing of itself because the symbol hasn't been the effect of
itself.
You can be without knowing, but you can't know without being.
Knowing is always about being, and thus comes after and because of
being. Thus knowing is a different event from the being that it knows
about.
Notice we are talking about the phyiscal universe here, and
learning machines trying to learn about other machines etc.
Now we are looking at a far away star with a video camera.
The image on the video camera is transferred to a TV set. The
image on the tv set is sent to our eyes and lands on our retina.
The image on the retina is transmitted into the brain and the
visual cortex. (There is no red, green or blue in the visual cortex.)
There the image is rendered in a conscious image of color and
dimensionality. (There is lots of red, green and blue in the conscious
rendering.)
But then what? What happens after it's rendered in consciousness?
Then nothing, that's what.
The end result has been achieved, consciousness is knowing that
knows without having to pass it on to something else later in the chain
to know it!
The conscious image is the end of the line, because it doesn't need
yet another symbol down the line to see itself.
We can't see the star directly.
We can't see the image in the video camera directly.
We can't see the image on the TV set directly.
We can't see the image on our retina directly.
We can't see the image in our visual cortex directly.
But we CAN see the image in our consciousness directly!
This is so amazing, words can not be placed on it.
Each of the stages above act as a symbol knowing knowledge about
the referent before it via being an effect of that referent.
The image on the video camera is a symbol that 'knows' about the
star via the light coming from the star. The video camera is affected
by the light, and changes state because of the light, and thus comes to
represent knowledge about the specific nature of that light and the star
that emitted it.
You see if the light is 5000 Angstroms, the video camera will
change one way, if the light is 4000 Angstroms, the video camera will
change another way. So there is a differentiation in the final state of
the video camera according to the nature of the cause that impinged upon
it, and that differentiation IS knoweldge.
The video camera is one way and not another way BECAUSE the star is
one way and not another way. That's called tracking. And that is what
knowledge is about and how it is encoded in symbols of final authority.
A symbol of final authority is a symbol that we use to tell us
what's what in the world around us according to the state of the symbol
at the time.
So the video camera at the moment it receives light from the star
becomes the symbol of final authority (for the moment) about the nature
and state of the star.
But does the video camera know that it knows? No, the video camera
is just an object BEING a symbol for knowledge about the star.
In the same way, the TV set displays the image on the video camera,
and thus is itself another later symbol being knowledge about the video
camera, but the TV set does not know that it knows.
The TV set displays the image but can not SEE the image it is
displaying. The TV set can only be, not know.
Remember seeing means more than just being in the light, it means
KNOWING in the light. A flashlight can't see the rock even if it is on
and pointed right at it.
Consciousness is knowing living light, that is more than just a
flashlight throwing a few photons around. Photons just be, they don't
know anything either.
A conscious unit may USE photons to help itself know by
illuminating a physical object, but the photons don't illuminate the
consciousness, and in the end it is the consciousness self luminescing
that is doing the knowing.
So only when we come to the conscious rendition at the end of the
data chain does something very different happen.
Again the image is displayed in consciousness, just like on the TV
set, but there is no *FURTHER* symbol needed, to be knowledge about what
is displayed in the consciousness.
With the TV set, the image on the screen is the referent, and the
image on the retina is the symbol.
With the final conscious rendition, the conscious color forms that
we see are both referent and symbol at the same time!
The colors of consciousness are a form of BEING, but the seeing and
knowing that we see those colors are a form of KNOWING.
Thus knowing and being are one and the same event, with no space or
time between them, or we couldn't see anything.
Separation between knowing and being makes for absolute blindness.
That's why the video camera may know about the star, but the video
camera will never ever SEE a star. It will always ever BE a symbol for
a star.
So try to get this now.
The referent is being.
The symbol can not SEE the referent, but can KNOW about
the referent by being the effect of it.
The symbol can neither SEE nor KNOW about itself because
it is not the effect of itself.
With conscious color form, the referent is also being.
But the referent IS its own symbol.
Conscious referents are self symbolizing.
Thus the symbol CAN see the referent and CAN know about the
referent and CAN see itself and CAN know about itself, because the
symbol and referent are one and the same event.
And that is self luminousness.
Nothing other lights consciousness, and conciousness lights nothing
but itself.
And that light is not just more light of being, like the sun
shining on the rock, but the light of knowing.
Self liminousness being lit up and knowing you are lit!
That's conscious seeing.
A machine can't do that, because a machine can't operate self
symbolizingness. All knowledge in a machine is distant in space and
time from the object which is being that the knowledge is about, and
even that knowledge is just more being in the machine without self
knowing.
This is because a machine is always trying to learn across a
distance, like the video camera is trying to learn about the star.
There can't be any distance, space or time, between referent and
symbol in a self symbolizing event, a self luminous event.
Something very big has been said here.
Can you be that big?
Homer
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Homer Wilson Smith The Paths of Lovers Art Matrix - Lightlink
(607) 277-0959 KC2ITF Cross Internet Access, Ithaca NY
homer@lightlink.com In the Line of Duty http://www.lightlink.com
Mon Jun 30 00:19:11 EDT 2008
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