1. Introduction

2. Natural Selection and Successful Adaptation

3. The Environment

4. In The Beginning..

5. Escaping The Environment

6. Interacting With The Environment

7. First Life

8. Single Cell Organisms

9. Microbial Welcome Mats

10. Oceans To Go

11. Pack Your Bags, We're Leaving

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Understanding Time

Molecular Interface with Time

Introduction

By going back and looking at the history of life on Earth, this site will show we can have a better understanding of evolution and using this provide an explanation for the origin of what we term consciousness.

What follows is a short synopsis then a brief over-view of important ideas relating to the topic followed by a longer synopsis.

Short synopsis

Time is a natural part of the environment and the sense of time is a perceptual sense identical or similar to vision, hearing, sound, touch and taste.

Consciousness is the logical outcome of perceiving time within the environment. Just as advanced organisms can manipulate parts of their environment using arms, claws, feelers, appendages, etc, the brain has evolved to the point where it can perceive and manipulate time which is the source for what humans call the mind and/or consciousness.

This hypothesis will show the close relationship between the basic structure of time and how it relates to memory, thought and other aspects of consciousness.

What is Consciousness

It's a pretty hard question because one uses one's consciousness when one asks the question thus the conundrum becomes, can I even understand consciousness if I am using it right now - how can I reasonably observe something which is being used to observe itself? How can the observer observe itself without compromising what is observed? This will be answered.

From a purely thought perspective, when one goes in search of this information, what is consciousness, one has to be almost brutal in one's analytical ability - there can be no compromises, no white lies to ease the pain of the offended or potentially offended, especially oneself. Brutal honesty has to be a key ingredient in any analysis, but it is even more crucial to the undertaking at hand.

Another crucial component is of course knowledge. Beyond simply what we know, we have to examine how do we know it? This question is very important because not only does data exist but we must also understand how that data was collected over the centuries. Then the question of what is knowledge also becomes relevant.

So what is consciousness? I have been looking at what is existence and reality since I was a teenager. It has been the most important thing in my life ever since. Through this search for knowledge it became apparent that our own minds, my mind, consciousness and the brain have a lot to do with what we perceive to be reality. Even at the start of this quest, I came upon a hole in our knowledge.

Many years ago when I was 16 or so I realized that there was a concept out there that we just gloss over as a given. At the time, I did realize it was important, but I wasn't thinking about it in terms of consciousness, nor was my knowledge level sufficient to finally pull it all together.

Today, over 25 years later, I will start to present what I know now about that blind spot and what is consciousness. Following the exposition of the idea and it's proofs, I will also strive to present steps to confirm or deny what is stated here and provide a definition what is "thought" and some of what that means across various species including our own.

Long Synopsis of Functions of Nature

There are two large, common things for which we have no explanation and unsurprisingly, they are related.

Both Consciousness and Time are concepts that we seem to "know" a lot about but cannot define with any degree of certainty. This hypothesis will show that there is a geometry of Time and how it relates to consciousness, the mind and the brain.

If you look for definitions of Time all one finds are yardsticks - measuring tools. No idea or knowledge on what exactly is Time - does it have a structure, does it have microscopic particles, what is it other than the rate of radioactive decay?

It would be like defining the world as you perceive it in your eyes only using a ruler - sure measuring physical surfaces yield some information on those surfaces, but says little to nothing of what composes the surface or how the surface interacts with anything else other than in the most crudest fashion, nearly nothing at all about erosion, electrochemistry, friction or a myriad of other properties of the physical world as per physics.

Basic cosmology and maths say we are living in time and space and that space can be represented in three-dimensional equations and time is a closely related fourth dimension.

We know a lot about three-dimensional geometry from a maths perspective and have a lot of equations that can explain a lot of the structures and behaviours of the 3d world. Not so much for 4d other than describing objects moving in a 3d context.

We have started to see some great work of mathematicians who have started to produce 4th dimensional structures in a way we can more easier perceive. A excellent development which will allow for easier understanding of the idea here - that our minds are merely the logical outcome of evolution, that time is a phenomenon part of our environment and that consciousness and our minds are simply functions of the nature of time.

The hypothesis says that there is a 4th-dimensional landscape and that our brains evolved to the point to where we not only perceive the 4th dimension - time - but can actively manipulate aspects of time to achieve what we term the mind.

This hypothesis will show how time is perceived, what it is, how we may form nodes in time is and how that can describe how thoughts are formed and what is memory, among other things.

To get there, we have to refine our knowledge of evolution to understand what is an evolutionary advance using the criteria by which a mutation of an individual can be said to be better evolved than it's peers - a successful adaptation.

By understanding the outcomes of evolution we can see that when organisms became more complex, early nervous systems had to manage incoming sensory data about the environment within the organism itself - this ability to coordinate is in and of itself a function of time.

Certainly there are lock and and key systems, i.e. if A is stimulated, then B will occur, methods of environmental interaction. Without these systems being present it is highly unlikely the mind would emerge at all.

However this is only part of the story and does not explain self-awareness, problem solving and many other aspects of what we term the mind.

When there are competing streams of data coming in to the organism that information has to be processed by the organism in a logical and beneficial fashion. Without coordination there would be a cacophony of chaos - there can be no successful organism without sensory coordination.

This will be supported by among others things, looking at the ability of completely different organisms to problem-solve even though they are not humans (octopi) and why; how cascades in the brain may mimic nodes or simple 4d geometry of Time; explaining what are memories (including why those with certain brain-injuries can no longer create new memories yet retain their old memories); glimpses of this through recorded history; and how synthesia can provide some proof of the hypothesis.

Proposed methodology for further study will be discussed as well as what it means in a few specific examples.

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May 17 I'm losing it no work no revenue to continue. never thought I'd be done, one of those who had to die like so many of us who question orthodoxy in the past. I see how it happens though, I see how the inferiours grind us down don't hire us and treat us like shit because we are not dumb animals.My bday is June 11 and if I make it there i will be happy but right now I see very little to keep me alive. Canada is a shithole full of retards, stupid british slaves who despise independent thought and those who do not believe in magic skygod bullshit.

April 24 Nope hang on. Adapting....

April 16, 2012 , 01:30am These long layoffs between chapters make it sometimes difficult to pick up and go as you lose the flow but while I was on shift tonight I worked out what I needed to write in this section. A little tired now so maybe a summary of where I am going then flesh it out this week. 3:15am Done with more coming this week.

April 15, 2012 Have to work this weekend, not many hours but at night so I will put up something today/early Monday morning (1-4am) but may rewrite/expand on it later as well. Just want to mention the benefits of a body cavity and point out a little thing related to segments. Only a summary regretfully when I get back after midnight. Lots to add. On call for work so my plan for a free weekend to do this is not entirely there HOWEVER there is no way I am not doing something Monday sometime before 6am PST, likely 2am or so no matter how bare bones for the moment.

April 7, 2012 Getting work on call, back online at home, next chapter up next weekend.

March 10, 2012 Still looking for work, can't focus well when concerned about core finances and home net is out. Back ASAP, I hope.

Feb 12, 2012 - Done!!!!! First draft up online now, Oceans to Go.

Feb 10, 2012 - Pretty focused on work, trying to find thereof, worried about my own continued existence. I will finish up Oceans to go at least this weekend. Could really use funds to finish this up.

Feb 5, 2012 - Well that didn't take too long, could use some more tweaking but it is on it's way, just have to transcribe it to the webpages. Finally made a single page version to go through a little more easier in editing and created a single page version for you all as well. I know it drives me to distraction when there are two or three pages on a news site for a single story. It has been a rather long time since I properly looked at this and had one small moment of panic when I arrived at the end of 10 and was like, what, where, what I am writing here? It's all fine! Body cavities, tubes and oceans-to-go make perfect sense, onwards!

Feb 4, 2012 - Alright it will be done by end of Sunday for sure with maybe a little something extra.

Feb 1, 2012 - Started redoing the Enviro change...looks like I will have to shuffle around a few things between pages, some tedious work but at least not a total rewrite :D Have to protest former employer tomorrow. It's been...quite a life. Would prefer it was less eventful from now on, at least on the struggling side of things. You can check the second page, Natural Selection/Successful Adaptation to see how easily the Environment page, currently 6, can be brought forward and introduced a whole lot more logically. Just skip to last paragraph, says it all in term of flow from page to page. The Enviro page now 3 still needs editing as do subsequent pages as certain subjects get shifted between pages. Friday end of day?

Jan 30, 2012 - So I lost my job last week. Can pay rent then nothing else. Thinking of filing a human rights complaint but it will also lead to other investigations and don't really want to do so but if I have no choice. I have been trying to finish this for almost or over ten years now. I need steady funds. I might need to go back to Montreal...this is so hard. What a drag. I will do more here this month all the same - you will have an update/rewrite for the enviro flow end of this week, and another chapter at least for end of next.

Jan 26, 2012 - Update 2 11:15am: Okay I will put initial environment explanation in the "in the begining section" and then proceed - more changes in the first life, single cells merged maybe or flowing with the evironment. Biking first though, while still "warm' (as if).... Update: After a few more hours sleep, feeling good, normal-like not zonked from the meds, recovery happening, nice to feel so far. Try to figure out the Enviro thing this morning with a bike ride later to clear the rust and provide some insight, bicycling is excellent for that. Earlier: Did not taper medication on Tuesday which led to issues for Tues and Wed, hey I am awake at 2am Thursday so there it is. Did bloodtest though so recovering from week-long odyssey and then we do this, first up, trying to figure out where to put the explanation for the environment. Might make it part of a sub-section or across a couple/few chapters instead.

Jan 18, 2012 - This week, a few hours after writing the below remark, I went on a week long-ish diet in preparation for taking food allergy tests which may have been causing migraines for decades. Due to the pain I am also on a diet of tylenol 2's. Keep this in mind in looking for updates though I am committed to at least weekly updates if not more.

Jan 16, 2012 - Hey this is the year! And..hmm thinking of editing the environment part, a little strange I write about microrganisms then go on describing the formation of cell walls and membranes afterwards. A to B to C to etc. Flows must be changed!

April 12, 2011 - Things moving forward, expect updated content soon. Did a little copy-editing, which was defintely required!

January 15, 2011 - Nice have server space again, many many studies have helped with some issues when I get back to this - ie it is a many node system interconnected for one. We'll get there!