The Geometry of Consciousness

The nature of consciousness is fundamentally chaotic and creative, the more conscious that life forms seem to be, the more that they abstract from a simple geometry. The more chaotic they become in the systems that they live by and the greater their ability to create becomes.

If we were to put some kind of scale to what we observe (generally) as higher and lesser conscious life forms, we would likely start with plants which display the most simple geometry both physically and in the nature of their life cycles. They grow from a seed, flower, fruit and then pass. 

Then there are slightly higher forms of consciousness such as bugs which abstract more but express a more complex/chaotic geometry in their actions and expressions. They move around more sporadically, have mating rituals and have to source their own food. A few creatures are even able to create but only to a simple geometry, this expression gives us an insight to the more simple structured geometric nature of their psyche (think the geometric nature of honeycomb and spider webs).

Then as we move onto mammals and creatures that seem to have more complex systems than bugs, like cats and dogs. They still live by the basic principles of life but unlike bugs and plants, they play. This shows that they are more creative and more conscious, the very act of play is an act of curiosity. It's to process chaos. These mammals also have more complex mating rituals. Their lives abstract more, yet they still follow a geometry which we can understand and is entirely orderly to us. They live by patterns and habits more simple than ours.

Then we get to human beings, what makes us more conscious? We are an abstraction so far from what we can observe to be more simple and structured forms of consciousness in other animals. We create like no other life form. We live for a vision so great, we had to build our own world to see it through, that's how chaotic we are. 

Where other life forms create for survival, we seem to do it for pleasure. Is it pleasure or is it a necessity? We seem to need more than to eat, mate and hunt, or we complicate it more rather. As a collective we have a lot to express. 

We are processors to the chaos beyond the comprehension of other life forms, where it's chaos to them, we see the order. We live in an order collectively but unlike any other observable life form, we reach beyond ourselves. We are yet to really understand who we are enough to live in a balanced equilibrium like the rest of the ecosystem, we seem to be always in motion, processing a higher truth.

The most curious thing is that we are chaos to all lower conscious creatures. Animals can't see beyond their more simple systems of thinking. To a plant a bug is chaos, to a bug a dog is chaos, to a dog we are chaos. In the dog world, anything beyond simple primal living is meaningless chaos. Have you ever tried explaining politics to a dog? In other terms I suppose that what I am trying to say is that all intelligence beyond our own understanding would abstract from our systems of thinking. If there were a higher intelligence, it lies in chaos.  

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