Why Consciousness Is Never Needed For Speech and Behavior:

Why Consciousness Is Never Needed For Speech and Behavior:
WHILST SPEECH AND MOTION CAN BE PERFORMED LIVE WITH CONSCIOUSNESS IN ATTENDANCE, SPEECH AND MOTION ARE ESSENTIALLY CONSCIOUSNESS FREE MECHANICAL PROCESSES THAT CAN ALSO BE PERFORMED PRERECORDED THAT ONLY REQUIRE THE PRESENCE OF AN INSTRUCTING BLUEPRINT (LIKE A CODED VIDEO FILE), A SET OF COMPETENT ACTUATORS AND A MEANS OF ORCHESTRATING THE ACTUATORS, NO WHERE IN THIS PROCESS IS CONSCIOUSNESS OR CONSTANT OR FREQUENT ATTENTION NECESSARY. CONSCIOUSNESS IS MERELY AN OPTIONAL (DESIRABLE) SUPERVISOR IN THE PROCESS. ON THE CONTRARY, COMPLEX SPEECH AND MOTION CAN OCCUR IN THE TOTAL ABSENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY SLEEPWALKING, SLEEP TALKING AND RESPIRATORY MOVEMENTS THAT CAN AUTOMATICALLY ADAPT TO SITUATIONAL NEEDS WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS ATTENDING.
(Just as it is possible for a DVD deck to encode and decode a DVD disc with complex audiovisual data for repeated playback and no consciousness is involved from start to finish, even so it is possible for much more sophisticated human minds to encode in and then decode from a mental hard disk for play back complicated speech and behavior that looks so real it fools onlookers who are themselves fakers and the faker himself without consciousness ever intervening)
JUST AS IT IS DESIRABLE YOU ALWAYS WATCH YOUR STEPS IN ORDER NOT TO STEP ON AN UPRIGHT NAIL, CONSCIOUSNESS IS DESIRABLE OR ADVISABLE TO CARRY OUT SPEECH OR MOTION SO THAT ONE TOTALLY INTENDS OR MEANS THEM SINCERELY BUT CONSCIOUSNESS IS TOTALLY NOT A PREREQUISITE TO CARRY OUT COMPLEX SUSTAINED MOVEMENT OR SPEECH.
EVEN WHEN YOU HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING OR ARE AWARE OF YOUR MOVEMENTS DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE EXECUTING THEM LIVE NOT BY ROTE FROM A JUKEBOX. YOU CAN EXECUTE BY ROTE SPEECH AND MOVEMENT AND STILL HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING OR SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOING. IT ONLY MEANS THAT ON THAT OCCASION YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. PAYING ATTENTION TO SAY WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY IS DIFFERENT FROM PAYING ATTENTION TO HEAR WHAT YOU ARE PARROTING.
In order to speak or move, all you need is to instruct the relevant muscles to move in a coordinated fashion in the correct sequence to produce that desired movement or speech. This process does not require consciousness and can be carried out in the total absence of consciousness. If you can write or record a sophisticated program in neural circuits that will instruct beforehand all the relevant muscles to move in a coordinated or orchestrated fashion according to a determined sequence then the only consciousness you need to speak and move in a manner that appears coherent and life like is that needed to assess any given situation to decide when and what program to activate and then to intermittently monitor and adjust or change the programs as the situation demand. And this is the real life situation of actors who like to think they are such mindful, fully comprehending masters of themselves.
Just as the music box of old can render simple mechanical tunes merely by winding it up so that the resultant rotating movement of a drum with a series of protrusions striking a keyboard produces the illusion of someone playing an instrument, similarly speech and motion can be carried mechanically entirely without need for consciousness.
No consciousness is (ever) required to speak or move in a complex manner for sustained periods like human actors do. It is a myth that you need consciousness or awareness or it is indispensable to speak and move or speech and movements cannot occur without conscious instruction from that mind. On the contrary, consciousness is merely an option that actors choose not to exercise, not frequently but all the time because they are nothing more than exalted disc jockeys.
Just as a humanoid robot that is devoid of consciousness has a microprocessor that instructs it to move its limbs in a coordinated manner that appears so realistic gullible onlookers might be fooled to believe it is actually alive but it is merely carrying out by rote sequences of programmed movements, in the same way, human robots have a programmable centre in their minds of much greater sophistication that can coordinate complex limb and vocal apparatus movements to be triggered on instruction without needing consciousness at all. Because human robots have far greater variety of alternative programs to choose from, can adjust or even switch programs midstream, they and onlookers are fooled they are real time case by case live performers when they are extremely deceptive fakes.
Does a computer need consciousness to carry out complex calculations you ask of it, to activate and close programs, to sense errors and report to you? All it needs is instructions telling it what to do in such and such a situation and it will do it with more faithfulness than human robots (partly because it is not emotional). Similarly no consciousness is needed for human robots to speak and behave; all you need is to tell the muscles what to do and how to do it.
EVEN THOUGH CONSCIOUSNESS OR ATTENTION IS TOTALLY NOT REQUIRED TO SPEAK AND MOVE BY ROTE, IT IS CRUCIAL AND INDISPENSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION TO COMPOSE AND CARRY OUT SPEECH AND MOTION THAT IS THE FULLY INTENDED CASE BY CASE RESPONSE TO THE SITUATION AT HAND.
Theoretically speech and motion can be rendered without any need for consciousness because they are merely mechanical processes requiring the presence of actuators and a system of orchestrating them.
Logically, actors’ speech and motion must be rendered without consciousness by rote because they always contain a simultaneous combo of substance and style that cannot be rendered live, that is too laborious to render by frequently switching attention between substance and style and therefore substance and style speech which is what all ordinary people’s speech are, is largely if not always rendered by mindless rote prerecorded.
In reality, actors speech and movements are largely mindlessly by rote, only occasionally, especially when learning new acts do they act by frequently switching their attention between their substance and style. Actors NEVER perform live on a case by case basis except in their delusion that they do so or are mindfully capable.
Anyone who speaks with constantly stretched syllables, constant changes in speed and loudness is speaking by rote from a mental jukebox. Anyone who smiles or laughs whilst speaking is performing by rote from a mental jukebox.
It again reflects that ordinary people’s perception are severely faulty or false that they think they are performing attentively live when they are performing inattentively rote, in danger of future madness when their jukeboxes that they depend on so frequently finally fail.
Retrieving Not Concentrating:
If you observe people talking, sometimes they pause as if to think or concentrate with their eyes slightly rolled upwards and their foreheads burrowed in furrows. They are not concentrating but forcefully struggling to retrieve not so well recorded or more complex rote sequences from their hard disks.
(What they are doing is acted or expressed thinking, it may be faked for show or it may reflect the effort needed to forcefully retrieve prerecorded sequences. The discerning person can differentiate between the two whilst the foolish is taken in)
A Grave Difference:
There may be those who wonder what does it matters whether a person is performing live or by rote from a mental jukebox.

The grave difference is that if you are rendering by jukebox, you may appear to be deceptively attending to matters at hand but you are detached from reality, merely sizing up a situation to activate prerecorded speech and behavior that you think is appropriate. Apart from the stress, restlessness and distraction jukebox performance entails compared to the calm clear thinking of a truly live performance, there is danger you can be caught out when something out of the ordinary happens. For instance if you are walking mindlessly by rote, nothing disastrous may usually happen but one day you will step on something nasty like a long rusty upright nail.
Just as it is possible for someone to steal a CD and play it without permission but it is not possible to steal a live performance that is forever gone afterwards, if you are faking it from a mental jukebox, there must be a mental recording or file of your speech or action in your mind that can be hijacked by the blind mental force also resident in your mind to be triggered against your will to torment you.
Power Amplifiers:
The relationship between the added force and the substance of what a person speaks or does may be compared with the relationship between the power amplifier and the preamplifier in a Hi Fi system.
The function of a power amplifier is to boost the complex constantly varying audio signals to a louder or more powerful level without significantly modifying or distorting it so that it can drive loudspeakers. (But the nature of amplification is that as more power is added to the signals, more harmonic distortion is introduced, in the same way, as actors attempt to boost the power in their speech and action too much as when they become emotional, it becomes contorted and unwieldy)
Just as the preamplifier output is sufficient to power headphones for personal consumption but a being desirous to broadcast his stereo for others to listen to impress them (with his Hi Fi or taste) must subject the signals to a constantly operating separate power amplifier whose output or loudness can be varied significantly, which does not modify the signals but merely makes them more powerful, similar the power amplifier generating the force of going against self in actors’ minds boosts the forcefulness of the complex constantly varying output of the mind without modifying it.
Just as complex sound signals are largely unchanged but they are all amplified, become more powerful after exiting the power amplifier, even so whatever the actor wants to say, do, think or perceive becomes amplified with power added after it exits the amplifier or power generator in the mind.
Just as whatever signals are always amplified in passing through the power amp, even at low volumes, even so all activities have power added after passing through the power generator of the mind.
Just as there are powerful amplifiers that can sustain massive amplification with minimal total harmonic distortion whilst some puny amplifiers distort easily when they are overloaded, even so there are tough goats who can amplify or increase the force in whatever they say or do without outward signs of distress whilst some individuals display breakup or distortion when they try to add too much force in their speech and motion.
THERE IS A SEPARATE POWER AMPLIFIER IN THE MINDS OF ACTORS (THAT CAN BE DISCONNECTED TO EXIT MENTAL FORCE AND ACTING) THAT BOOSTS THE POWER OR ADDS FORCE TO WHATEVER THE ACTOR WANTS TO SAY, DO, THINK AND PERCEIVE. AN INDICATION THAT THIS IS SO IS WHEN ACTORS STRUGGLE TO CONTROL THIS FORCE; WHAT THEY DO OR SAY BREAK DOWN WHEN THEY TRY TO ADD TOO MUCH FORCE EG WHEN THEY BECOME EMOTIONAL (ANGRY, GRIEF).
Multitasking:
People talk of computer multitasking as if the computer can do many tasks at once. What the computer may be doing is rapidly switching between the tasks at hand, because computer chips are very powerful nowadays and they can switch between functions very rapidly, it gives the impression they can do many things at once when instead they are being harassed, juggling many functions at once.
If you observe how your computer works, you may see it is so.
If you are copying files and watching video and using a word processor program, you may notice the video becomes jerky, the sound sometimes breaks up and previously rapid data transfer may even come to a halt to then resume.
There is now so called dual core processors that are two CPUs on a same chip. This is ‘cheating’ because it is essentially two chips working at the same time not one chip.
THEREFORE EVEN THE ‘MIGHTY’ COMPUTER MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DO TWO OR MORE THINGS AT ONCE BUT IT MUST RAPIDLY STRESSFULLY ALTERNATE BETWEEN MULITPLE SIMULTANEOUS TASKS DEMANDED OF IT. IT MAY BE PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO MORE THAN ONE TASK AT A TIME AND YOU ARE UNNECESSARILY STRESSING YOURSELF, CONDITIONING YOURSELF TO AUTOMATICALLY DIVIDE YOUR ATTENTION UNTIL A DAY MAY COME WHEN YOUR CONCENTRATION CANNOT BE RECONSTITUTED.
“How Can That Happen?”:
One speaking imperially asks, “How can you do that?” or “How can that happen?”
Apart from it being false, the fact that it has been done or it has happened reflects that it can be done and happen so to ask so is false, it is making a fuss, not letting your yes be yes only.
The person speaking correctly says, “You cannot or should not do that” or “That should not happen”.
The Root Of Self Consciousness:
If you are telling a lie or something to mislead someone, you must act as convincingly as you can and yet be not entirely convinced that you are not lying and therefore you must be self-conscious lest people perceive you are faking it. Because people have said and done many things falsely to mislead others and each time they must experience self consciousness, it is now well imprinted in their minds so that they become easily even madly or irrationally self conscious.
Try Something New:
It is impossible for an ordinary person who is doing something for the first few times to perform it slickly in a virtually identical fashion and the only reason why people are so good at performing something is because they have done it so many times before and they are mindlessly regurgitating it from their mental jukeboxes.
The reason why someone spits compulsively with unhesitant rapid accelerating acceleration of speed and forcefulness to great violent levels is because he has done that so many times. It is impossible for a novice in spitting to spit with the venom people do. What he does not realize is that he has unwittingly honed it to perfection and is rehashing it from his mental jukebox that will one day haunt him, will be played back mercilessly to torment him because spitting venomously is never a pleasure but deeply agitating and warps the mind. Imagine spitting violently without provocation and experiencing the violent agitations it is associated with and be unable to stop it.
What Relevance?
The Blessed One said: "A person has six properties, six media of sensory contact, eighteen considerations & four determinations. He has been stilled where the currents of construing do not flow. And when they do not flow, he is said to be a sage at peace. One should not be negligent of discernment, should guard the truth, be devoted to relinquishment, and train only for calm.
There will be those who are resentful, indifferent or undiscerning who may fail to see of the relevance in the Buddha briefing Pukkusati about the person having six properties, six media of contact, 18 considerations and 4 determination.
The reason why the Buddha spoke as above is not for show or he is attached to precepts but it is to convey that contrary to the popular view that this world is marvelous, indefinable and complex beyond imagination (as poets and philosophers imply), it is unabated suffering even to tormenting levels, is dependent on a being existing to experience and is simple, what a being boils down to is (simply) six properties (matter comprising solid, liquid and gas, space, energy and consciousness), six media of sensory contact (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste and intellect) and four determinations (discernment, truth, relinquishment and calm) that determine his destination.
How many people mired in this world, distressed by its sufferings and seeming meaninglessness complexity, like a ball of thread that has no end and beginning, are flummoxed to grasp that however exalted or incomprehensible you might think this world is, it can be reduced to a body with matter, space, energy and consciousness, six sensory portals for contact that can only be pleasant, unpleasant and neither? This realization is crucial in making head and tail or understanding out of this seeming complexity. One becomes sobered and not be carried away to marvel at this world.
Why People Are So Violent Today:
The reason why people nowadays become violent so easily when they are provoked is because the lifting of mental constraints after 1977 and recently, have allowed them to practice their forcefulness more directly with greater acceleration or explosiveness to greater heights than they could before so that they are now owners of potent mad stress, mad emotions and mad violence that can be easily triggered by minor upsets and once triggered the momentum is now very hard or impossible for them to restrain.
THE HANDCUFFS ON EVERYONE’S HANDS HAVE BEEN REMOVED BY THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE AFTER 1977 AND WITHOUT GIVING SO MUCH AS A GRATEFUL ‘THANK YOU’, THEY HAVE USED THIS NEWFOUND LIBERATION TO UNREPENTANTLY, UNABASHEDLY EXERCISE THEIR FORCES OF GOING AGAINST SELF SUCH THAT THEY ARE NOW OWNERS OF POWERFUL FORCES OF GOING AGAINST SELF THAT CAN BE EASILY PROVOKED TO RISE WITH RAPID ACCELERATING ACCELERATION TO LEVELS THAT THEY FIND HARD OR IMPOSSIBLE TO RESTRAIN.
Why Consciousness Changes Did Not Occur Earlier:
Surely the Buddha, Jesus and God are aware that there were tormenting consciousness restraints in place before 1977 that are removable but the reason that they were not removed earlier may be unavoidable, for the sake of the earth and the continuation of the Age, not the result of a vengeful God wanting to make beings suffer unnecessarily.
Just as a hardcore prisoner must have his hands cuffed to render him safe to handle, even so consciousness constraints that were in place throughout the Age may not be so much punishment by God but necessary to protect the earth until the allotted time for the closure of the Age arrives. An aging fisherman told me he retired from fishing recently because the catches nowadays are meager and with diesel oil price escalating it has become economically unviable to fish. If mechanized indiscriminate industrial fishing was introduced earlier, the time when the oceans are depleted of fish may be much earlier and what the fisherman may be accounting anecdotally may be that the oceans are being seriously depleted of fish and a time is coming soon when there are few commercially viable fisheries.
IT IS A REFLECTION THAT THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE IN 1977 CANNOT HAVE OCCURRED MUCH EARLIER OTHERWISE THE EARTH WOULD NOT HAVE LASTED MUCH LONGER AFTERWARDS, UNCUFFING THE HANDCUFFS EARLIER WOULD ENABLE MANKIND TO INTENSIFY IN AN UNSUSTAINABLE FASHION HIS ABUSE OF THE EARTH SO THAT EVERYTHING WILL COLLAPSE BEFORE ITS EXPIRY DATE. MANKIND HAS TO BE KEPT UNDER CONSCIOUSNESS CONSTRAINT. THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES IN 1977 IS A PRECISELY TIMED EVENT BECAUSE THE AGE IS COMING TO A CLOSE, IT OCCURRED SO THAT BEINGS WHO HAVE CONSCIENCE AND CONCERN CAN EXTRICATE THEMSELVES WHILST GOATS CAN REITERATE VIOLENTLY THEIR DEVOTION TO GOING AGAINST SELF.
THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES IN 1977 AND IN RECENT YEARS THOUGH POSSIBLE ALL ALONG, CANNOT COME EARLIER BECAUSE FEW WILL BENEFIT FROM IT, FEW WILL MAKE USE OF IT (AS PROVEN BY PEOPLE’S UNREPENTANT BEHAVIOR TODAY) AND MANKIND’S WANTONNESS MAKES IT UNSUSTAINABLE FOR EXTENDED PERIODS BUT MANKIND’S HANDS MUST BE HANDCUFFED BY MENTAL CONSTRAINTS TO ALLOW THW AGE TO RUN ITS DUE COURSE.
Grand Folly & Selfishness:
Whatever pleasure that you can experience that is derived from your senses is ultimately dependent on your mind as the final vehicle of experience it; cannot be experienced outside your mind suggesting it is self sufficient, capable of all the happiness and pleasure it wants without needing anything extrinsic.
That the same pleasure experienced by the mind can be generated by different objects eg glittering gold or diamonds or voluptuous beauty or a loved one indicates that that pleasure may be generated in the mind itself without dependency on the vagaries of extrinsic sources. Hence it is an abiding delusion that they are not OK by themselves but their happiness and wellbeing are dependent on obtaining and experiencing extrinsic objects.
WHATEVER PLEASURE THAT CAN BE OBTAINED BY EXTRINSIC OBJECTS IN THIS WORLD CAN BE OBTAINED IN ONE’S MIND INDEPENDENT OF THEM, CAN BE GENERATED BY ONE’S MIND WITHOUT THEM AND IT IS GREAT FOLLY AND DELUSION TO STRESS ONESELF IN THEIR VAIN PURSUIT. YOU CAN HAVE ALL YOUR HEART’S DESIRE AND IF YOUR HEART IS HEAVY YOU WILL DERIVE NO SATISFACTION AND EVEN THE MOST MUNDANE FOOD WILL TASTE DELIGHTFUL IF YOUR MIND IS CONTENT.
IT IS LIKE THE FOOLISH MAN WHO GOES EXERTING EVERYWHERE IN SEARCH OF A PRECIOUS PEARL WHEN IT IS ON HIS FOREHEAD ALL THE WHILE.
Whatever the medicine and health foods there are or will be cannot alleviate the terrible torments or forms of madness of a mind that contains force, contains its proxies the emotions, even if the medicine and food can maintain your brain and body in tiptop physical condition, what good do they do to a tormented mind? But if a mind is truly completely freed of force that needs no medicines or health or choicest foods to achieve, it would be permanently liberated from stress, restlessness, distraction, depression and mad violent urges and thus in bliss, it neither requires nor has any desire or interest to lavish itself with medicine or choice nutritionally correct food that are surplus to requirement.
The fact that a being believes it is necessary to treat his mind and body with the best medicines available, nourish them with the best foods available and keep them healthy by a regime of regular exercises (not just of their bodies but even their minds) reflects attachment to or concern for his physical body; an identification with his body. If your physical body is an illusion, is perishable not everlasting, is prison of torment, not a palace of pleasure it is made out to be, then you are attached to something that is false and suffering and since you are attached to it, isn’t it befitting that you will remain with it, both in this life and many lives to come? If you hate your life here, why should you care about what you shall eat and what you shall wear? If you do not care what you shall eat and wear, how is it that you adorn yourself with rings, chains and bracelets and pamper yourself not just with ‘delicious’ food but are impressed when your food are dressed up on your plates?
Cannot Stop Thinking:
The reason why people cannot stop thinking even if they wanted when thinking has become tormenting is because there is always force accompanying their thinking either directly or as emotion as when people keep forcing themselves to think to remember something.
If you cannot stop yourself thinking or stop yourself thinking about a subject, it indicates there is force backing your thinking and you are harming yourself by applying force on your mind when you think.
It is because ordinary people’s speech are always backed by force that they cannot stop talking, they cannot stop themselves from retorting when provoked and they struggle to stop talking even when they are stressed by their talking.