An alternate look at Naturalism

I think of human consciousness as a peculiar configuration of consciousness. But then I also think of material things as a manifestation of consciousness. That also means the particles that combine to make the chair or the rock.

If we look at the vast ocean, we know that we can take a drop of that ocean and put it under a microscope. We can see that it is made up of molecules of water and those molecules are made of atoms of hydrogen and oxygen and those atoms are made of sub-atomic particles. We can't do that with consciousness because there are no constituent parts - every part of consciousness is consciousness. It can't be reduced to something else.

What's this configuration thing? If we are going to have different configurations that make human consciousness, a chair, and a rock, then there has to be lower-level consciousness building blocks and configuration laws that describe how they form into each of those things.

Something must be present in human consciousness that is missing from the rock or vice versa.

~~ Paul