What comes after consciousness?

[Magical Realist]

I am constantly plagued by this question. Evolutionarily what comes after consciousness? I think it is already dawning. I call it aseity or self-conscious existence. To plummet the logic of one's being down to a self-evident or necessary level. Too often we get stuck in the trap of thinking our existence is incidental or contingent. That it is just as likely for us to have not been as to have become. But there is a logical, almost mathematical, certainty in self-existence. We exist because we are conscious of our existence. There is no chance that we are not because the very act of being aware of ourselves entails that we exist. They are fused together in a indivisible core. We thus have a moral principle behind oufundamental being. We are necessary a priori. There is no possibility that we could not be, because we are and we KNOW that we are. We partake of the infinite absolutivity of pure Being.

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[Mr Doodlebug]

Aseity.
Had to look that up.
One of the attributes of God.
Existing from itself.

Aseity Eternity Graciousness Holiness Immanence Immutability Impassibility Impeccability Incorporeality Love Mission Omnibenevolence Omnipotence Omnipresence Omniscience Oneness Providence Righteousness Simplicity Transcendence Trinity Veracity Wrath

[Magical Realist]

Aseity.
Had to look that up.
One of the attributes of God.
Existing from itself.

Aseity Eternity Graciousness Holiness Immanence Immutability Impassibility Impeccability Incorporeality Love Mission Omnibenevolence Omnipotence Omnipresence Omniscience Oneness Providence Righteousness Simplicity Transcendence Trinity Veracity Wrath

Yeah..I had to steal that one from theology. Existing in itself. Just speculat'n though..

[Mr Doodlebug]

I doubt that everything can be explained by science.
But for science to verify spiritual beliefs, there would need to be scientific evidence.

[C C]

Yeah..I had to steal that one from theology. Existing in itself. Just speculat'n though..

Seems etymologically sound. Or to put it another way: Religion doesn't have basic proprietary rights to the concept.

A latin-descended meaning of the prefix a- is "from, away, etc".

A latin-descended meaning of seity or se- can revolve around self-related affairs.

Seity (n.) Something peculiar to one's self.
--Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.