The Purpose of Consciousness V

 But how can the idea of nothing be something if it is nothing? The only possible answer is that human consciousness has been given the power to recognize the idea of nothing to be a true and real and useful idea that makes human intelligence possible. The idea of nothing is an immaterial idea, and yet humans undoubtedly possess it. Human consciousness possesses other useful and real, immaterial ideas. Falsity itself is a real, immaterial idea because it always equals the real idea of nothing. Infinity is a real, immaterial idea because it is useful in mathematics.

What about self-consciousness? What about a system of ideas called "consciousness of consciousness"? Consciousness itself cannot be material because it is the awareness of all that is real including all immaterial ideas. Consciousness separates itself from reality as being the consciousness of reality. Consciousness can be conscious of nothing except that which is real. In order to be useful in that way, then consciousness itself has to be a real and immaterial idea. This means that the system called "consciousness of consciousness" can only be real.

Somehow, materialist philosophers consider consciousness to be less real, or not real at all, compared to material objects that possess only inert, non-consciousness. Actually, the fact that intelligent consciousness can formulate true or false systems that either expands or limits reality means that human consciousness happens to be far more real than inert, material objects that do nothing unless acted upon. Even the fact that intelligent consciousness can make mistakes such as misapprehensions, miscalculations, have hallucinations, invent lies, or experience optical illusions only proves that consciousness must be real because consciousness always uses only real and useful ideas and experiences to formulate such false systems and be able to recognize their falsity by its use of the idea of nothing. If a person disbelieves that wings and horses exist, he limits his reality because he disbelieves in objects that really exist. But he must use his idea of nothing in order to disbelieve. If, after he has been told that wings and horses exist, he imagines a winged horse, he expands his reality into a false direction because he has formulated a false system comprised of true and real objects. If he later learns that wings and horses do exist but winged horses do not exist, he uses his real idea of nothing to expand his reality in the right direction. Such is the history of the human race. Humans eliminate false systems by its use of the idea of nothing when it discovers or invents true systems, both of which always comprise true and real ideas and/or objects.

But how did humans acquire intelligence by its use of the immaterial idea of nothing? The only possible answer is that humans were given immaterial ideas by an Infinite Consciousness that pervades the entire universe. Genesis 1:1 (KJB)