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             %NON-OBJECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS REFLEXIVE 870118

     By  its essential nature consciousness is  reflexive.
To  confirm that someone is conscious entails  asking  for
reflexive  behavior  on  the part of  the  conscious  one.
Programmed  machines  can  be  taught  to  respond  in   a
systematic  way which is not reflexive in a conscious way.
Genuinely   conscious  individuals  respond  to  conscious
requisitions in a non-systematic way which is reflexive in
a conscious way.   Conscious individuals who have not been
systematically programmed do not spend extended periods of
time trying to interact consciously  with another creature
which  is not genuinely conscious;  they are able  without
instructions  to recognize genuine consciousness,  and  to
recognize  imitations  of  consciousness.    They  do  not
interact with machines as if they were people.

     Intelligence involves consciousness, reflexivity, and
so is  not  objective  in  character.    Thus  intelligent
behavior  is  not objective behavior  because  it  entails
reflective consciousness which is reflexive.

     Objectivity  is an appearance created for utilitarian
purposes  by intelligent people engaged in reflexive  non-
objective  behavior.    Objectivity is a  useful  illusion
created to achieve selective understanding, prediction and
control  of  unconscious elements of reality.    Conscious
elements  of reality can not be systematically understood,
predicted  or  controlled as can unconscious  elements  of
reality.   Objectivity is an illusion created by carefully
choosing   to  work  only  with  unconscious  elements  of
reality,  and so to choose to be unconscious of the higher
levels of consciousness among objects and peers.

     Wise  people  are selectively objective in  how  they
approach  situations,   not compulsively objective in  all
situations.  Wise people are free to reflect upon how they
have approached different situations and the desirable and
undesirable  consequences  of  those different approaches.
Such  reflection  is reflexive and essential to  effective
coping. It is  not  objective  because  the participant is
personally involved in the focus of consideration.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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