Sanity Is Impossibility by Santosh Jha (books to read in a lifetime txt) 📕

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CHAPTER 2

There is an archetypal dilemma or dualism about approaching realism for expression and communication. There is an insistence that Reality must always be scientifically explained and understood and for that to happen, the expression and communication can never be anything else but mathematical. Mathematics is the singular definitive language of pure science realism as it alone seems to have the singular, objective, measurable and two-way verifiable vocabulary and grammar! However, as we have earlier stated, at some point of higher realism, even pure science delegates some critical elements to the domain of philosophy for expression and communication.

For example, there is this very famous slice of realism, which is worded as – ‘Do Not Be, You Shall Be’. This sure is a huge element of Reality but it cannot ever be amenable to mathematical expression or mathematical linguistics. It has to and remains in the domain of philosophy. Naturally, philosophy has to ride on the vehicle of vocabulary of languages, resulting in vitiation of the possibility of mathematical precision and irrevocability.

When we talk about the realism of consciousness, this dualism stands before us in its utmost and optimum vulnerability. Consciousness, as human knowledge understands it today, probably cannot be expressed and communicated through a mathematical model. There have been claims of having a mathematical interpretation of consciousness but still not acceptable by scientists. The primary reason being the critical assertion that Cognitive capacities or realism of brain states are not truly Computational and therefore not replicable and verifiable. It is believed that specificity (exactness) of consciousness is cognitive, emergent and vectoral, therefore not amenable for computational singularity. This very dualism stems out of the till date restricted knowledge of humanity about human brain mechanisms and processes. There are great ideas about mechanisms and processes of human brain functioning and also fascinating attempts to structure a mathematical equation to that but, as usual, the fine-line between mathematics and philosophy is blurred.

Therefore, as things stand today, Reality is observer-dependent and observer being consciousness, cannot divest itself of dualism as consciousness itself is a dualistic property or function, because of the way consciousness has been designed and evolved, as an emergent, collaborative and integrated function of body-brain-milieu causality. This of course is the primary and archetypal dualism about arriving at Reality, which we always have to keep in mind, when we later talk about Human and Life-Living Reality and hypothesis of Impossibility of Sanity.

However, it needs to be accepted that talking about consciousness and understanding it is a hugely difficult task because of its abstract nature and predisposition to philosophical expression. Even for scientists, consciousness till very recent times had been a rather taboo subject as it was considered a sure case of discredit and disrepute to the scientists handling it. It is said that there are over 20,000 research enterprises on consciousness and still, definitiveness is missing.

There is this hugely dualistic cyclicality between quantum science and its philosophical dependence on idea of consciousness as it is believed, consciousness itself is probabilistic because human brain behaves like quantum particles in dualistic probabilities of wave as well as particle. Then, the natural question that arises here is if brain is probabilistic and superpositioned in nature, what is the factor or element within human brain or outside, which can be accepted as the ‘Observance’ or observer that makes a Reality collapse for final decision-making of brain states? There is no answer yet on how brain states decide on a particular decision-making, when there are two or more probabilities competing for being Real and True. So, is there another element of observer-consciousness, within the human consciousness, which is being labeled as the ‘Observer’? Ancient Oriental spiritualism claims to have the answer, we shall talk later!

That is probably why when Reality is attempted to be explained with consciousness as its prime platform, it does not suit mathematically but philosophically to quantum science. Dualism explained by another dualism! This creates confusion and conflict. Usually, science corroborates a philosophy but philosophy becoming the basis of scientific hypothesis as well as a theory cannot possibly be considered as objective and singular.

Therefore, when we talk about consciousness and attempt to understand it as a common person, with little take away from pure science mathematical discourse, we need to simplify things and use such language and communication methodology that we all can relate to and internalize easily. This we are going to attempt to do next, with all possible optimality of sincerity.

With all humility at my behest, I wish to state here that the very purpose of my writings is presenting in my own language what I have internalized in my life, through the long process of learning and unlearning, catalyzed by the energy of skepticism. It is a realism in my part that usually, the scientists or experts of specific fields and domains explain their knowledge and wisdom in such words and language, which is rather academic and highly focused on specific idea, replete with subject-specific terminologies. This makes it difficult for common men and women to understand it as average person requires a generalized explanation and holistically related narration, in language and terminology that he or she is familiar with. For example, if a scientist explains a knowledge, which is fourth stage of a research finding, an average person must always be aware of rest of the three stages of knowledge. The scientist usually does not start from scratch and focuses only on last part of a finding.

For an average person, it is tough to spare that much time to get into all details and then relate this new knowledge to his or her earlier knowledge base. The very purpose of my writings is that. I do not say I know and I have discovered. I have internalized things that are there, with persevered attention and then present them in my eBooks so that average reader does have the ease to internalize what I am saying, trying my level best to speak the way we all usually talk and explain. I humbly admit that I am still learning and evolving as a confabulator. No doubt, there are limitations to how much knowledge can be simplified and made expressible for easy apprehension. The complex idea like consciousness defies easy explanations as it involves some ideas and notions that are very modern and seldom talked about in our daily lives. I am hopeful that in partnership with your magnanimity and compassion, we shall have ease in understanding the difficult idea of Consciousness.

The beginning and end of everything is Self. What someone can and does have within the probable and practically feasible domain of perception of Self alone can be subject matter of foolproof verifiability. Otherwise, things begin to slip into the domain of philosophy and literary imagination. Therefore, the primary aspect, which humanity as a whole and an individual in particular should ideally focus about is the very mechanisms and processes that create, shape and stand ‘I’ or Self. Thankfully, when scientists work on the macrocosmic aspects of Reality, it is only an automatic facility that wisdom and knowledge about understanding of ‘Self’ is bettered and facilitated.

It is not that understanding of ‘I’ or Self has been a modern or new phenomenon. Since over 5000 years or more, many arrived humans have realized and even documented so many aspects about existence, self and ‘I’. No doubt, modern science has only put them into great perspective for improved understanding. There have also been corrections and facilitations by modern science. The quantum debate of dualism and non-dualism has always been there with humanity, thousands of years back. Now that we have ease of scientific explanation and secular-objective literature, we can understand it better.

The primary thing about Self or ‘I’ is dualism of its situation or position as ‘Karta’, subject, observer or protagonist. The very complex and yet unresolved idea of Consciousness plays out and installs this situation and position of Dualism very intelligently and categorically. Modern science also somehow establishes that self, ‘I’ or consciousness is not automatically and innately the ‘Karta’, observer or protagonist. It is rather only a ‘Medium’. Consciousness is a medium and it itself is an emergent and evolving entity of the body-mind medium. Therefore, in a sense, consciousness is a medium within a medium! This primary and most critical idea of ‘Consciousness As Medium Within Medium’ needs to be understood with perfect clarity.

There is a very famous metaphor used by both spiritualism and science for explanation of Realism. It is about a honeybee sucking nectar from a flower. A honeybee comes flying, sits over a flower, sucks its nectar and then moves away. Traditionally, or in populist perception and linguistic sensitivity, there seems no Dualism in this act as it is believed that from the perspective of what is being observed, the honeybee is the Subject, ‘Karta’, observer or protagonist and the bee sucking nectar is clear ‘act’. Of course, the flower is the Object as it is doing nothing. The honeybee is the doer of action and therefore singularly qualifies for being the Subject or Protagonist.

The dualism however creeps in when we see and accept the other perspective that is equally true but not ‘observable’ to general sight mechanism. This other perspective says; honeybee and flower are both only Objects as the supposed ‘Action’ is being done on both equally. The action is not honeybee sucking nectar as it is only the Effect of a Cause that is actually energizing the Action. Naturally, it is this ‘Causality’, which is true Subject as it is this Cause, which has created the ‘act’ of this effect playing out between honeybee and flower. It is the energy of causality that created the ‘media’ of a ‘giver’ and another as ‘taker’ but both are just expressing or playing out the ‘script’, directed by the energy of causality.

This Causality, which is the Subject, is the innate symbiotic relationship between honeybee and the flower. The real and true Subject is the innately wired ‘Connect’ of the honeybee to seek nectar from the flower. Two elements are in a relationship, which is an effect of the core causality of survival-symbiosis between the two. Therefore, both the elements of honeybee and flowers are only Objects and both are equally reacting to and effecting something, the cause of which is scripted in the ‘Relationship’ or ‘Context’ between the two. This intangible Causality is the Subject and true Protagonist.

This of course is the microcosmic interpretation of the larger macrocosmic Realism. The macrocosmic Realism says that consciousness is not in flower or honeybee, even while both may be living entities. In other words, consciousness that exists in honeybee or flower is only a small and dualistic medium of the larger and non-local and non-dualistic consciousness, which exists and stays elsewhere or everywhere. The real and true non-local and non-dualistic Consciousness is the Causality of ‘Context and Relationship’ that is just having a medium of body-mind of honeybee and flower. It is the Causality that is the Real and True Subject and Protagonist as it is this Causality, which goes on to create the ‘Matter’ in the form of different ‘Media’ for its unraveling and final expression. This final expression is usually accepted as Reality by all of us as it is what our five senses can perceive and react to. However, this sure is not Reality.

In simple words, it is the Causality that is true, real, core and critical element of Observance but is not automatically observable to we humans through our sensory mechanism and therefore does not qualify as Reality for us. However, this causality, even while being the true Observer, requires the Media for its expression or for playing out its effects. Consciousness of living beings is the media that causality as observance uses for playing out reality, which our sensory mechanism and processes can and does easily see, feel and accept. It is because this consciousness is also a media of our body-mind tangibility, enabling consciousness to perceive reality, thus extending it