On The Nature of Consciousness, Cetrict & Wyatt, LLC

04/23/2025

03/17/2024

https://a.co/d/2T8jVhr

STORY THE MENTALITY OF AGENCY: SEIZING THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF STORY

03/16/2024

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STORY THE MENTALITY OF AGENCY: SEIZING THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF STORY

03/09/2024

In this soon to be released book, I consider the implications of accepting the inescapable truth about life.

The truth?

Everything in life is experienced and lived as stories.

Try thinking about anything, including yourself, without calling to mind or imagining a jumble of stories and vignettes about it.

Nothing exists without stories about it—not even you or me.

All that is knowable and known to us was conjured by the progenitors over millennia as the Story of Life.

This is the Story that gives direction and meaning to our lives.

The life that we experience is not anointed.

Because nothing can exist without stories describing the how, what, when, where and why of it, that means that existence, reality, consciousness and self, in short, everything at its core, is just our stories about it.

The Story is the brick and mortar of community and us.

Agency in life can be achieved by accepting that what we experience as life is just a concocted Story, and as such, it can be altered or rewritten to make our lives better.

Available on Amazon after 03/14/2024

01/16/2024

The experience of living exists only because of our collective actions and interactions as players and pawns in conjured plots and scripts of stories that chart, explain and give purpose, meaning and direction to life itself.

You are conscious of existence, perception and experience as you travail stories and scripts of ebbs and flows in waves of feelings crashing against a granite of consequences.

From birth to death we each perform our collective parts in the plots and scripts of stories passed from generation to generation that we believe explain our place in creation and what is to become of us; What is to become of me.

01/07/2024

To really connect, commune and know another person beyond the fleeting power of social convention, histrionics and hormones, you have to accept that their story of life and the meaning and direction of life and their place in it, although similar to yours, is not nuanced in the same manner as yours is. You can discover and regale in their nuance and therefore knowledge of the person by encouraging and listening to them tell you and by attentively watching them act out their version of reality and the course and meaning of life--but you have to do so with an open mind and the suspension of judgment and each of ours belief that our story of the course and meaning of life IS the true and real story of the course and meaning of life. Others can only know who you really are and convince you that you are known by them if you and they do the same in encounters and journeys taken together.

12/08/2023

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I believe that I have worked out a theory of mind and self that describes how our minds constructs existence, reality and consciousness in a way that creates the stage and venue of the “reality” that we experience and that underpins all human social and psychological structures. I believe that understanding the true nature of reality can lead to greater self-determination and control over one's life.

Simply put, the theory posits that because nothing can exist, i.e., lived, experienced, without a story about it--whether the narration describes the self, universe, reality, emotions, culture, society, etc.,--all aspects of existence, mind and our psychological and social structures are analogues/stories constructed and retained in the mind as references which serve as venue, map and context as we move through our daily life and experience as the drama of existence, consciousness, self-consciousness and culture that constitute life and the meaning of life. Try imagining anything that you perceive or experience without "telling" a story about it. I cannot.

My conclusion is that nothing can exist without a story describing it, ergo, existence, reality, consciousness, self-consciousness, culture are just our shared stories about everything. A story gives form and sustenance to things culled in the physical and mental landscape, including the self and others. Human existence and mind at its core are just shared stories.

In this book, I postulate a paradigm which I call the “Narrative,” that describes the process of building and sharing constructs of reality, consciousness, self, others and culture that are generated in interactions between body and mind (the corporeal and ethereal) that we experience as existence, consciousness, reality, self, others and culture. These structures make individual and social action and interaction possible. Without these structures, survival and group action is not possible.

I hope that you enjoy my book and perhaps give me your assessment. This is a novel and unfolding theory of mind even for me—a work in progress.

ON THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE NARRATIVE, A WORKING MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS, THE COGNIZABLE, THE KNOWN

11/13/2023

Nothing can exist or be perceived without a story about it. Ergo, existence, consciousness and self are just stories about existence, consciousness and self. The matrix that we are ensnared in is not a computer generated or divine labyrinth or simulation, rather it is the experience of living trapped in the panoply of roles and plots of scripts of conjured and shared stories of the meaning, purpose and direction of life. We have not yet evolved enough to perceive meaning that exists outside of the ones that we have conjured for ourselves.

WITHOUT STORIES, THERE IS NO UNIVERSE, EXISTENCE, REALITY, OR YOU

10/06/2023

Nothing can exist or be perceived without a story about it. Ergo, existence, consciousness and self are just stories about existence, consciousness and self. The matrix that we are ensnared in is not a computer generated or divine labyrinth or simulation, rather it is the experience of living trapped in the panoply of roles and plots of scripts of conjured and shared stories of the meaning, purpose and direction of life. We have not yet evolved enough to perceive meaning that exists outside of the ones that we have conjured for ourselves.

https://a.co/d/9mRec2W

09/26/2023

Nothing can exist or be perceived without a story about it. Ergo, existence, consciousness and self are just stories about existence, consciousness and self. The matrix that we are ensnared in is not a computer generated or divine labyrinth or simulation, rather it is the experience of living trapped in the panoply of roles and plots of scripts of conjured and shared stories of the meaning, purpose and direction of life. We have not yet transformed enough to perceive meaning that exists outside of the ones that we have conjured for ourselves.