THE RANDLE REPORT

MIND OVER MATTER

If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter

The old joke actually expresses a blindingly obvious truism that is missed by many toilers after enlightenment through science; especially those whose capacity for thinking themselves ever deeper has led them to conclude there is no such thing as consciousness.

Baldly stated, without consciousness there would be no science. If you rule out the awareness and the faculties for thinking and evaluation, you rule out the very basis and possibility of the ideas and experimentation that have brought us to wherever it is we stand today in relation to the scientifically modelled world around us.

Every atom, every rock, every stream, every star and every universe between here and not here is meaningless, unorganised, insignificant and indicative of entirely nothing until someone with the capability and impetus to observe and evaluate it applies such meaning or significance to it.

Consciousness alone sets out to impose order on randomness and chaos. Only consciousness cares. Such order exists not at all until it is so imposed. Conscious units can argue themselves blue in the physiological face about whose imposed order is the order of the day, but all order is the application of theory, viewpoint or understanding to that which is inherently chaotic and without advertised purpose.

Missing this point, it is possible for scientific theorisers to decide which bits of the chaos they accept, or feel themselves able to explain, and in so doing  create a skewed reality for those who will blindly believe anything as long as it is spoken with, or backed up by, accepted ‘authority’.

Only thus is it possible for the ruling consciousnesses to convince them that they are not conscious, despite the fact that, by whatever mechanical means information and experience reaches them, it still, ultimately, has to impinge upon their consciousness to make any difference.

Someone might tell you what you think you perceive is an illusion borne of ‘brain activity’. Illusory or not, it is you, as a conscious individual who is experiencing it.

The lie that consciousness does not exist may seem as idiotic as the old joke, but it is no laughing matter in a world where dogmatic science rules – especially where it rules in the service of those with no fellow feeling. The stimulus response principle serves those who would rule and poison us very well, but edits out a crucial factor.

The stimulus is not the cause, but the response.

People are not a generality. They are individual consciousnesses, capable of their own unique emotional and intellectual responses.

One man’s girlfriend leaves him. He hurts, but he understands. There are more fish in the sea.

A second man’s girlfriend leaves him. Life is not worth living. He turns to drink or drugs and lets it ruin the rest of his existence.

A third will not allow the girl to leave and uses threats of violence to get her back or to try and prevent the possibility that she will form another relationship elsewhere.

Identical stimulus, multiple responses. There are many millions of other variations – as many as there are bereft boyfriends.

We are able at this time to see how a relatively new ‘science’ sets out to impose order without understanding of this simple truism. Psychology is an enormous edifice built on fictional entities – the id, the ego, the censor and so forth. None of these is identifiable or definable by any scientific method – they are not even neologisms for new discoveries. They are part of a mythical pantheon upon which the subject draws for spurious credibility.

Actually it has none. It is not a science but a meaningless and mostly useless construct. But it is far from alone in being a created subject in which an interest group can claim esoteric knowledge. Such fraudulence has gone on since time immemorial, and persists as much in the realms of so-called ‘science’ as ‘religion’ or the ‘paranormal’.

It has been a conscious effort of material science to divide human perception into these arbitrary categories – to define which belief is right belief and where the boundary of ‘normal’ is to be drawn. Neither of these is a path to truth or understanding and only the denial of consciousness can make it seem so.

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