Post # XVIII - CONSCIOUSNESS: NATURAL HETEROSEXUAL MANIFESTATIONS

A.  It should be noted that natural consciousness is not a free-standing and individualistic phenomenon.  If one closes one's eyes, one is less conscious than when one's eyes are open.  Similarly, all the senses. 

And when one dies and no sensory organs continue to function, one no longer has any consciousness.

(Of course the make-believe of Judaeo-Christianity posits 'eternal life' as a kind of post-mortem artificial consciousness.)

Natural consciousness is an interaction between a living organism and its environment - abetted by memory.

[Although I am not an expert in neurophysiology, I recall reading that visual perception involves the cerebral cortex performing a Fourier Analysis/Transformation on input from the optic nerve and then projecting the result back into the environment in a way that exactly conforms with the objects in the environment - and it is this projection that one actually 'sees'.  Similarly, the other senses.]

B.  Male consciousness (from birth) scans the environment to seek out people, things, and/or events that may be good for him.

Female consciousness (from birth) scans the environment to seek out people, things and/or events that she can be good for.  (When a female infant cries for food, she is communicating, in effect:  "How can I be good for you if you let me starve?")

This male-female complementarity is analogous, of course, to the interaction between a 'wanting' sperm cell and a 'providing' egg cell.

C.  Judaeo-Christianity's reverence for a God and his (male) off-spring's role of being good for the world (eg, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son - that whosever believeth on Him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 KJV) artificially inverts  the nature of procreative life.