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The Conscious Human Experience

How Indeed?
"How did we get into a situation where people can say things that are inconsistent
with obvious facts of their experiences?" John R. Searle; The Rediscovery of the
Mind [1994]

9-09-09
by Curtis Edward Clark

The "obvious facts" of the human experience are that individually we feel a
singularity, each of us in our personal experiences, a singularity because it is
not separable in the framework of "intellect" vs. "spirituality", or "mind" vs.
"soul". We experience our spirituality as something shaped by our intellect yet as
part and parcel of it, as directed by it, assuaged by it, scolded by it, and
praised by it--as if one hand was slapping or shaking or stroking the other hand.

It will be the mission of this Journal to describe the nature of "the singularity
of experience", both in terms of what it means to the consciousness of having
experience, but what it means in terms of metaphysics and epistemology, and in
words the lay person can understand.

There is no reason for anyone to make either fabulous spiritual claims about their
lives nor to make unintelligible intellectual claims under the guise of academia.

Consciousness has a single intelligible identity

means there is no duel in the understanding of the differences between brain and
mind, or mind and soul, or soul and body, or mind and body. There is no
conversation with intellectual integrity that supports such a duel. There is only
the conversation about the acquision of knowledge; and of the natural, bio-
neurological means by which we comprehend that we comprehend that consciousness is
the identification of the experiences of our existence.