The Conscious Human Experience

Originally published @ http://sites.google.com/site/journaloftheaofmn/how-indeedThe Conscious Human Experience How Indeed? "How did we get into a situation where people can say things that are inconsistent with obvious facts of their experiences?" John R. Searle; The Rediscovery of the Mind [1994] 9-09-09 by Curtis Edward Clark The "obvious facts" of the human experience are that individually we feel a singularity, each of us in our personal experiences, a singularity because it is not separable in the framework of "intellect" vs. "spirituality", or "mind" vs. "soul". We experience our spirituality as something shaped by our intellect yet as part and parcel of it, as directed by it, assuaged by it, scolded by it, and praised by it--as if one hand was slapping or shaking or stroking the other hand. It will be the mission of this Journal to describe the nature of "the singularity of experience", both in terms of what it means to the consciousness of having experience, but what it means in terms of metaphysics and epistemology, and in words the lay person can understand. There is no reason for anyone to make either fabulous spiritual claims about their lives nor to make unintelligible intellectual claims under the guise of academia. Consciousness has a single intelligible identity means there is no duel in the understanding of the differences between brain and mind, or mind and soul, or soul and body, or mind and body. There is no conversation with intellectual integrity that supports such a duel. There is only the conversation about the acquision of knowledge; and of the natural, bioneurological means by which we comprehend that we comprehend that consciousness is the identification of the experiences of our existence.