On Progressive Development of the Sense of Reality
In whatever aspect the phenomena in the environment are observed, the categorical correlation in relations to them causes us to be in direct connectivity on a representational level in our consciousness. This means that the semantic content connected to the representations defines the content of the reality we experience existing in, under a constant progression.
When we consider that a guard in a subway is carrying a pepper spray can, as he or she senses it, he is in constant contact to the type of information it is composed of, since the sense of touch can only produce a representation of the object, from which can in parallel be attached the representation of its appearance, and so on. A kind old lady baking cookies is far from the representational content of viscously poisoning his guests, but instead she desires to offer an experience of tasty wonders she is able to create. When a scientist perceives his environment in a molecular level by the use of his imagination, he hardly considers the aesthetics of the object in which he imagines the molecules of being, if not admiring the beauty of molecular structures.
As consciousness does not receive contents of the environment directly, the correlations it creates of the presentations of the phenomenon also makes us unable to suddenly close off our senses or make the presentations disappear from the sensed environment. And in such connectivity, the semantic correlates related to the phenomenon start to increase in its content under the constant flow of information, and as a representation, it becomes neurologically a part of us. This causes us to be in direct connection to our environment, and the changes in it are either physical or in the level of information it gains constantly. Thus we are in ever changing relation to the environment, in which the semantic information completes our understanding of it, categorically and in type. The representations are what we perceive as the environment and it is the changes in these representations that we react to.
The other consciousness having entities in the environment are also under this same progressive state of development, directly connected to the increasing complexity of the awareness as it must of course occur in neurological level in them too. The environment develops under these forces and creates the progressive development of the environment in another form. The increase of awareness in others in the environment increases progressively the context of information that another can create representational correlates with through available means of communication. This very same flow causes the creation of a developmental continuum.
In another form, as we develop the objects such as architecture, technology, and such, the progressive development of the environment is caused by re-valuations of already existing representations. If something is to be demolished, it is still a part of the chain of causalities, history that is composed of every action that lead to the emergence of a future, while the representational interpretations shifts along with the changes in the environment. Through adjustment we co-adapt to a different set of circumstances the progressive development has caused, just as well as the environment co-adapts in relations to us.
In individual level, the constant expansion of the representational sense of reality is an inevitable effect of these phenomena, causing us to exist in different, temporarily relevant set of information. As for example the society develops, the possibilities it offers for such as careers change. Developing skills is advancing the neurological abilities concerning it, creating more advanced levels of information processing, which then again offers different sets of possibilities. Thus, in all these forms, environment can be perceived being under constant progressive development.
Henry M. Piironen is a contemporary European philosopher of consciousness, cultures, and reality. His main focuses are in the ethical development and in the creation of cross-cultural awareness of globally dominant major religions between the merging cultures of the 21st century age of information exchange. To purchase his latest books, visit barnesandnoble.com