Jun 6, 2026 05:42 AM
(This post was last modified: Jun 7, 2026 04:42 AM by Magical Realist.)
How easily and often it seems that verbs end up becoming reified into abstract states of being. We sleep and are asleep. We live and there is life. We die and there is death. We sicken and there is sickness. We move and there is motion.
Whether justifiable or not, it seems to even become more questionable when dealing with mental actions. We think and there is thought. We imagine and there is imagination. We reason and there is reason. We remember and there is memory. And we know and there is knowledge.
And what pray tell is the verb form of the state we call consciousness? We seem to have a state here with no previous verbal form. What does it mean to perform or do consciousness? I consciousize? Perhaps we can only at best elude to the performative of consciousness with the metaphor of waking up. I wake up and am awake, which rather awkwardly entails ceasing the action of sleeping or performing unconsciousness. Who or what are we that we can perform either unconsciousness or consciousness as effortlessly as we sleep or wake up? It is hard to put a finger on purely transferent agency--which is neither objective nor subjective but a relation between the two. The only concept I can come up with is that of pure energy or transmission of potential. Like between neurons as our synaptic firings. Like lightning from a thundercloud. Or like our moment of tenseless agency or action between the gap of the before and the after.
Whether justifiable or not, it seems to even become more questionable when dealing with mental actions. We think and there is thought. We imagine and there is imagination. We reason and there is reason. We remember and there is memory. And we know and there is knowledge.
And what pray tell is the verb form of the state we call consciousness? We seem to have a state here with no previous verbal form. What does it mean to perform or do consciousness? I consciousize? Perhaps we can only at best elude to the performative of consciousness with the metaphor of waking up. I wake up and am awake, which rather awkwardly entails ceasing the action of sleeping or performing unconsciousness. Who or what are we that we can perform either unconsciousness or consciousness as effortlessly as we sleep or wake up? It is hard to put a finger on purely transferent agency--which is neither objective nor subjective but a relation between the two. The only concept I can come up with is that of pure energy or transmission of potential. Like between neurons as our synaptic firings. Like lightning from a thundercloud. Or like our moment of tenseless agency or action between the gap of the before and the after.
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