Awareness as the container for experience

Draft

Our experience of this life is only through our awareness of it. There apparently seems to be two qualities of this experience: knowing and feeling

Knowing encompasses all the information gathered as knowledge through past experience stored as memory.

Feeling comes from a condition attached to an experience or memory.

This awareness of our environment gives us a conscious experience. Or as some refer to it as conscious-ness.

Through the direct experience of this consciousness we can confirm that there are many things that are happening in the background that are not in our control. Let’s classify these background processes that may not be in our awareness yet are active, on the other end of the spectrum as unconscious.

Conscious and Unconscious

We are conscious of our experience. We are conscious that there seems to be physical characteristics to this experience in the concept we call body. This is first sign of an apparent line of separation.

Today, we can confirm that at any given moment of time, there are many unconscious processes that run in the background to provide a conscious experience. These unconscious processes seem to be happening within the human body.

Yet, when we stop breathing air, we first loose consciousness even though our body is unconsciously still active.

Experience and Body

The fundamental question here is - Do we see with our eyes, which is a faculty of our body?