Consciousness and its meaning, ontologically

Abstract

Consciousness is still a great challenge involving not only how to know brains but also how to understand the mind. If all brains, including human brains, may be defined as the mind, consciousness must be part of our understanding of the mind. The author argues that mind may only be understood as life or living system. Herein, lives are defined ontologically, living systems are modeled as the organization of two system relations, and a semantic theory of mental languages is proposed, which together provide a framework for us to understand, ontologically, what and how consciousness is, why at all there is consciousness, where and when consciousness may occur.

Triple Definition of Complexity

“…It seems to me that life may then be defined as the oneness, unity, or interdependency of O changes and a C change (symbolized as "OC"). (3) Birth or death marks the beginning or end of such oneness, unity, or interdependence.…”

“…All complex systems possess knowledge. Knowledge is nothing more or less than the M. Perception or cognition is the process in which the E is manipulated or interpreted by the M. (3) Ax. 2 determines that no knowledge is possible if without the E, the M, or lives gathered together as components of the same system.…”