I don\u2019t know how to prove this, but mind that thinks about awareness represents a dimension of mind as different from bare awareness as is the third dimension different from the second dimension.<\/p>\n
Yet there\u2019s a further step in dimensionality: If mind—awareness—is another dimension, then thinking about thinking is what humans do. So if space is three dimensions—space as we know it—and if Einstein is right that time is a fourth dimension—then mind that is aware of all this is a fifth dimension. But that is bare mind—awareness.<\/p>\n
The next level up is thinking about thinking—bare metacognition. It manifests as the subjunctive tense. It represents, I submit, a level higher. For example, if<\/em> I were<\/em> to go here, I could<\/em> cut them off. That \u201cif\u201d phrase is human, or at least fully developed in humans.<\/p>\n Grammar, the awareness that language has tenses, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and similar professions take it a step higher: They think<\/em> about thinking about thinking! Woo hoo! Try to follow me! It is doubtful that those who do this realize that they\u2019re entering another dimension.<\/p>\n Mystics go a step further<\/em>. It\u2019s not always thinking, please note. It\u2019s awareness. Sometimes it\u2019s musical insight, or artistic intuition. It\u2019s sort-of-thinking about thinking about thinking about bare calculation\u2014an 8th dimension!<\/p>\n At this 8th dimensional level it becomes \u201cobvious\u201d that there are higher dimensions, God, organizing forces, whatever you might want to call them. This all adds another spin to epistemology, to be discussed further on this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t know how to prove this, but mind that thinks about awareness represents a dimension of mind as different from bare awareness as is the third dimension different from the second dimension. Yet there\u2019s a further step in dimensionality: If mind—awareness—is another dimension, then thinking about thinking is what humans do. So if space […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,25,26,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-psychology","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}