There may be another objection. That consciousness is one of the qualities of intellect, and there is no need to separate it into an independent category. But once the intellects are different, which means that they are compound, and therefore belong to matter. Then what are these tools for? Cinema exists for the viewer, not for itself. Intellect is a tool for the intellectual activity and for the creation of solutions that consciousness observes. Therefore, the existence of consciousness as separate from the category of the matter is more grounded.
Someone can say that consciousness is a part of matter, a kind of conscious matter. Let it be so. All the same, there are still two categories that are conscious matter and an unconscious one. Therefore, further, we will call everything unconscious as “the matter”.
One exists for another. Matter exists for consciousness, and it can consist of parts, take different forms, and consciousness can realize it. Consciousness has no parts by definition of the eternal principle of immutability, described above. Everything that is invariable is eternal, not divisible, it is elementary. Matter in its elementary form, in the wave field of the intellect, can take different compound forms, producing qualities and so on. Both categories have eternal being. The forms that matter accepts are temporary. This we see from our own experience.
The viewer is immutable, and the cinema or matter is in constant change or movement.
Consciousnesses are the same because they are homogeneous. The presence of qualities would endow them with a component part. So it would be a changeable being. The eternal unchanging, it is always indivisible, elementary, in fact. Good consciousness, bad consciousness, and so on would make it consisting of two-parts – consciousness plus quality. Hence follows the possibility of destruction. The quality itself does not have consciousness, and therefore, it refers to matter.
What causes matter to create the universe? Presence of consciousness. Apparently, the mechanism of the deployment of the matter is arranged in this way. The presence of consciousness includes the mechanism for unfolding the universal cinema of matter. Its purpose is to exist for the consciousness and unfold the universe for it. The presence of consciousness is a constant catalyst for the initiation of a cyclic chemical-biological reaction of matter, under which the unfolding and subsequent folding of the universe takes place. As a cinema is intended for the viewer, and not for itself, matter reacts to consciousness and serves its main function – to be conscious. If you remove the viewer, then there is no meaning in showing something. One serves the other, thereby ensuring the mutual functioning of both.
If we assume that matter is pushed by the desire of consciousness, then consciousness again becomes compound. Consciousness plus desire. And therefore the constant being of such a consciousness is impossible.
Therefore, we come to the conclusion: the being of consciousness is eternal, the consciousness has no qualities, is indivisible, has no form and is inactive.
There is another opinion that consciousness is integral, and is only one. Every consciousness is a continuation of the consciousness of god, who is conscious of everything, immediately penetrating into all bodies. But in our experience, this is not observed.
We are aware, for example, that I am now a person with a certain body and name, but at the same time, we are only aware of one body. We do not feel like our relative, friend, casual passer-by or dog in the yard.
If consciousness is indivisible, then how is the simultaneous, independent awareness of all bodies possible? In a dream, we can feel like a king or a bird, but in one moment of time, as well, only in one body.
The plurality of consciousnesses is more substantiated and complies with our experience and logical conclusion. Unity of consciousness is possible only in identity with each other. The number of consciousnesses is equal to the number of combinations of the elements of matter, or varieties of intellect.
Matter
Any change is a sign of matter. Change is inherent only in the composite principle. Everything that has form, difference and change refers to matter.
In our experience, we know that everything cannot have its origin from anything. People are born from people, birds from birds, trees from trees.
In everything, there is a structure, an algorithm of matter. Elementary particles or waves, then atoms, molecules, all of them are material objects.
What is indestructible? It is this what does not have parts, and is homogeneous. The element from which matter is made up, has a constant being and the being of consciousness is also indestructible.
The matter is that which has no consciousness that it is always changing, compound, has qualities, has eternal being.
So what exactly are we? How is this determined? What do we consist of? This is the most difficult question. How to separate ourselves from matter, to understand the boundary between us?
Let’s try to separate ourselves (consciousness) from matter with our reasoning. To do this, we define its components.
Three qualities
If we consider in general, then for us there are three qualities of this world, It’s good, bad, and neutral. The matter has these three states all the time, and the whole world is divided into them.
Good is – Virtue – corresponds with light, knowledge, purity, clarity, calmness, power, pleasure.
Bad is Passion – this is suffering, pain, greed, anger, envy, fear, defenselessness.
Neutral is Ignorance – indifference, inertia, numbness, darkness.
All these qualities are manifested simultaneously, but the percentage of each individual is different. Virtue prevails in the best of people, passion in ordinary people, and ignorance in animals and plants.
Like the three colors green, red and blue. When mixed, millions of shades are formed. So the qualities of the intellect and the bodies of beings are manifold. So all the constituent parts of matter in each individual have their own shade, which is made up of these three qualities.
Intellect
Intellect (Reason). It is that in what we think, reason, wish, decide, remember. The thinking process is a matter of intellect. Intellect is separated from the mind. The mind in our system functions as a collector or switch of feelings. Memory is also a property of the intellect since the mind only generalizes the results of the perception of the senses. And the analysis of experience is carried out by the intellect.
Intellect is the fundamental principle of the matter, from which the remaining elements originate. From the field of the intellect arise the ego, the subtle senses, and coarse elements.
Any movement of coarse matter comes from the intellect – the fundamental principle of the matter. From the movement of the hand to the rotation of the planets. Intellect is the core of the program of the universe unfolding and folding. The ratio of the three qualities divides it into many intellects that have their own shade. We see that the intellects are different, and if there is a difference or qualities, then this refers to matter, whereas the consciousnesses do not have the qualities and are therefore the same.
If we were, in fact, intellect, we would know where the thoughts come from and where they disappear. But everyone noticed that thoughts sometimes come to us when we did not want it, suddenly a thought comes from somewhere – oh, it’s like that, and it’s arranged this way. “And then it dawned on me…” Or there is disturbance or care for something, and we cannot stop thinking about it. Consciousness does not control this