title: Natural evolution and human consciousness.
abstract: A visual conscious experience is my empirical basis. All that we know comes to us through conscious experiences. Thanks to natural evolution, we have nearly direct perception, and can largely trust the information we attain. There is full integration, with no gaps, of organisms in the continuous world. Human conscious experiences, on the other hand, are discrete. Consciousness has certain limits for its resolution. This is illustrated by the so-called light-cone, with consequences for foundations in physics. Traditional universals are replaced by feels and distributions. Conscious experiences can be ordered within a framework of conceptual spaces. Triple Aspect Monism (TAM) can represent the dynamics of conscious systems. However, to fully represent the creative power of human consciousness, an all-inclusive view is suggested: Multi Aspect Monism (MAM).
authors.affiliation: Retired Architect SAR/MSA. Follows discussions on human consciousness since before 1980, see e.g. http://home.swipnet.se/~w-61325/ConsciousnessTheDetectorApproach/HoC.htm.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Holmgren
keywords: Consciousness; Continuous; Creativity; Discrete; Distributions; Feels