Sunday, November 30, 2008

Levels of awareness

Scott Adams rightly described a few levels of awareness:

"All humans experience the first level of awareness at birth. That is when you first become aware that you exist." - quite obviously every living human being possesses this level at birth and some manage to stay at the same level forever!!

"In the second level of awareness you understand that other people exist. You believe most of what you are told by authority figures. You accept the belief system in which you are raised." - Most of the people in schools and colleges are at this level and many religious followers, most of the common men holds this level.

"At the third level of awareness you recognize that humans are often wrong about the things they believe. You feel that you might be wrong about some of your own beliefs but you don’t know which ones. Despite your doubts, you still find comfort in your beliefs." - A good amount of educated/literate people reach to this level and become quite happy and proud of themselves!

"The fourth level is skepticism. You believe the scientific method is the best measure of what is true and you believe you have a good working grasp of truth, thanks to science, your logic, and your senses. You are arrogant when it comes to dealing with people in levels two and three." - Many highly educated/arrogant people, scientists, philosophers lies at this level and i personally feel that I belong to the same!! :)

"The fifth level of awareness is the Avatar. The Avatar understands that the mind is an illusion generator, not a window to reality. The Avatar recognizes science as a belief system, albeit a useful one. An Avatar is aware of God’s power as expressed in probability and the inevitable combination of God consciousness." - Not sure about this one, perhaps i need some more consciousness to understand this!!

Which level do u belong to?

1 comment:

the laughter bin said...

I think i belong to level 3 :)