Definitions

September 25, 2024

Definitions

Perception is not just a copy of some stimuli, we're not just like video cameras, but perception also includes your body's physical state, memories, beliefs, emotions, and attitudes mixed with your senses in real-time. Perception is the result of the mind and body working together which allows you to experience reality in a coherent holistic way.

My definition of the mind is that it emerges from the body as a field, supervening neuronal activity. I describe it as analogous to a "field" in the wave-particle duality of physics, with mental states being like "waves." The mind is a whole greater than the sum of its parts, encompassing aspects such as thought, feeling, qualia, and perception. It is created by the neural activity of the body but has its own distinct characteristics once it emerges. I also believe that the mind flows through the Singularity into Consciousness.

My definition of consciousness is that it is awareness, specifically the input of mind and body information converging into a singular experience. I believe consciousness is not emergent but a fundamental feature of the Soul. Consciousness acts as the input to the Singularity, connecting the realm of awareness with the physical world through the mind and body.

My definition of the Singularity is that it is a portal connecting the physical world with the realm of consciousness and will. In the physical world, this singularity localizes within the body, causing the mind to emerge as a field through and around the body. Will flows into the physical world through the singularity, while information from the mind and body flows into consciousness. I believe this Singularity is the Soul, and it serves as the point of convergence for experience.

If there's no such thing as a Soul, then Consciousness=Perception.

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BODY

The Living Boundary

Your body is not one boundary. It’s boundaries all the way down.

○ is body as interface. It’s the place where inside meets outside, where you open and close, where you breathe in air, take in food, receive touch, absorb experience. It is not a wall. It’s a selective membrane—alive, responsive, and always in motion.

Try This

Close your eyes and feel where your body ends and the air begins. Notice how many tiny sensations are being woven into that one felt “edge.”

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MIND

The Field Between

Φ is mind as field—the living medium between center (•) and boundary (○). It’s the whole relational space where signals from the body come in, where awareness from the center flows out, and where the two blend into conscious experience.

Try This

Notice your body breathing by itself. That’s ○. Now notice that you’re noticing. That reflective awareness is flowing from •. Then feel the space in which both are happening. That’s Φ.

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•

SOUL

The Aware Center

• is soul as center—not a substance lurking somewhere inside you, but the point of view from which everything is seen. It is the structural center of the whole circumpunct.

Bodies change completely over a lifetime. Memories blur, identities shift. And yet, there’s a sense that the one who was there then is the same one who is here now.

Try This

Close your eyes. Notice your breath. Then, gently, turn attention back toward that awareness itself—not the objects in it, but the fact that knowing is happening. That’s •.

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⊙

CIRCUMPUNCT

The Whole You

⊙ is the circumpunct: a circle with a point at the center. The circle is the boundary that holds everything that is “you” as a single system. The point is centeredness—the soul that experiences from within.

Instead of thinking, “I have a body, I have a mind, I have a soul,” you can think, “I am ⊙: a whole being whose body, mind, and soul are three faces of the same process.”

Try This

Feel your body as one shape (○). Notice the space of awareness in which thoughts arise (Φ). Sense the quiet center that’s aware of all of this (•). Then soften your attention to hold all three at once. That’s ⊙.

You are not on your way to being ⊙. You are ⊙, right now.

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