Thinking Beyond Science

Nurtured by a selfish bias which prompts us to overvalue conscious phenomena, we have overlooked the role of non-conscious energy for a reason that might be attributed to its spontaneous ingress into biological activism.

The concept of consciousness is no longer too veridical to unequivocally be an exclusive co-relate of living substance which in addition to being aware should enclose more refined elements of existence also.

Consciousness as a temporary instrument of interpretation as we deal with material is of limited utility when deprived of the cues or substrate from which it constructs the details perceived as an identifiable pattern of the world by us. Sleep offers a good example in which we see utterly poor correlation between consciousness and being alive.

The fact that 33% of the lifetime we spend in sleep in a Non-conscious state should make us ponder that consciousness does have a check mechanism to have itself regulated precisely in terms of the manner it exercises temporal control over an organism. Loss of muscle tone during REM sleep exemplifies that condition which protects us from self-harm if we act out of a dream.

Among various phenomena related to non-conscious, near death experiences provide us a valuable instance of how a different sort of energy signal can be a marker of subliminal activity without stirring any conscious loop.

Near death experiences are almost invariably accompanied by temporary suspension of respiration and heartbeat with associated reduction of oxygen supply to the brain as a common underlying factor.

Circadian rhythms (L Circa” about” + dia “day”) regulating bodily functions and behavior are synchronized to day night cycle & any consequent perturbations do lead to cognitive impropriety.

In human beings such circadian rhythms maintained by a pair of suprachiasmatic nuclei in the brain are essential to entrain body cells for interaction with the environment. Such a rhythmic pattern may be seen in sleep wake cycle, hormonal secretion and various activity patterns.

On a cursory inspection of the act, it seems sufficient to assume that we were directed by will’ to act in that way. The “will” in turn was driven by conscious machinery and hence dictated the entire event. But why was it so that our conscious will had an affiliation to one choice & not another.

Without an exception our emergence as human beings with a potential consciousness and so called free will are thus an expression of law which not only explains the emergence of the universe itself but our overall relation to it.

Stated plainly, law of entropy assures us that the universe and the things within have a predilection for an inevitable increase in disorder or randomness. Ever since the discovery of law, it has been used at various times in different contexts, to different events without a substantial loss of original meaning for which it appeared appealing to us.

It has been postulated that much of the carbon atoms that enter into the constitution of the universe including ourselves might be derived from neutron stars. On similar grounds we presumptively but not conclusively may infer that the signature energy precogitated to initiate the first event leading to the appearance of a biologically viable process must contain some information or signal to kindle a cascade of catalytic sequences in matter receptive to it.

To maintain a structurally or functionally organized behavior the living system in a highly dependent way has to keep sucking energy of high quality from the environment and dissipate energy gradients imposed on it. In this way the food we eat is thermodynamically endowed with high quality energy (exergy) essentially meant to keep all our biological processes going.

A living organism on earth may be considered as a set of pathways that acting in accordance with law of entropy has to perform this function of dissipation and anything otherwise means it will be selected against in the system.

One who obeys the law and develops a greater number of pathways for such dissipative processes will be favored by natural laws and exhibit a greater diversity as well.

Source : Free Will by Rauf H Tak