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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8701181.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %NON-OBJECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS REFLEXIVE 870118 By its essential nature consciousness is reflexive. To confirm that someone is conscious entails asking for reflexive behavior on the part of the conscious one. Programmed machines can be taught to respond in a systematic way which is not reflexive in a conscious way. Genuinely conscious individuals respond to conscious requisitions in a non-systematic way which is reflexive in a conscious way. Conscious individuals who have not been systematically programmed do not spend extended periods of time trying to interact consciously with another creature which is not genuinely conscious; they are able without instructions to recognize genuine consciousness, and to recognize imitations of consciousness. They do not interact with machines as if they were people. Intelligence involves consciousness, reflexivity, and so is not objective in character. Thus intelligent behavior is not objective behavior because it entails reflective consciousness which is reflexive. Objectivity is an appearance created for utilitarian purposes by intelligent people engaged in reflexive non- objective behavior. Objectivity is a useful illusion created to achieve selective understanding, prediction and control of unconscious elements of reality. Conscious elements of reality can not be systematically understood, predicted or controlled as can unconscious elements of reality. Objectivity is an illusion created by carefully choosing to work only with unconscious elements of reality, and so to choose to be unconscious of the higher levels of consciousness among objects and peers. Wise people are selectively objective in how they approach situations, not compulsively objective in all situations. Wise people are free to reflect upon how they have approached different situations and the desirable and undesirable consequences of those different approaches. Such reflection is reflexive and essential to effective coping. It is not objective because the participant is personally involved in the focus of consideration. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================