Primal Awareness - Part 2: Science, Religion, and a Route to Consciousness

We indicate that energy is arguably a scientifically reduced model of Universal primal awareness. This then implies that our conventional scientific ‘world view’ is itself a reduced model of a more complete reality, which primarily constitutes awareness as a, or the Universal mode of existence. This implies that our habitual relationship with our environment is to a degree erroneous, and that this begets a feeling of incompleteness of experience. We propose that this feeling is responsible for the widely observable establishment of religion, in its interpretation as evidence of a supernatural presence, usually involving a personal relationship. We maintain that recognition of the dichotomy we describe should be a vital part of system design and operation. We represent neural operations by a hierarchy, which can be decomposed into two partial hierarchies, one for the operational levels, one for the inter-level complex regions. We compare the neural hierarchy with atomic energy levels, and conclude that these are more correctly levels of awareness. We propose that awareness is amplified up through the neural hierarchical levels, producing consciousness, and that mutual observation between the two representative hyperscales generates self-awareness.