What is sentience? Thefreedictionary.com defines sentience as the quality or state of being sentient; consciousness. So to be sentient is to be conscious. But what does that really mean?

Conscious is defined as:

1. Having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts.

2. Capable of thought, will, or perception.

But then the question is, how do you tell if something is conscious. I don't think we can. It's not like you can just ask a sparrow if it is capable of thought. Our language, our lifestyle, the way we are, do not allow us to comprehend what is going on in that tiny little sparrow's brain.

And what is a brain?
The portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that is enclosed within the cranium,
continuous with the spinal cord, and composed of gray matter and white matter. It is the primary center for the regulation and control of bodily activities, receiving and interpreting sensory impulses, and transmitting information to the muscles and body organs. It is also the seat of consciousness, thought, memory, and emotion.

How do we know that the brain is the seat of consciousness? Is it possible to be sentient without one? Think about it. Everything you experience is all just a bunch of electronic signals, correct? And you influence your body by sending out other electronic signals. But where does consciousness come in. Is it simply the ability to understand all of the signals? If so then I humbly propose that humans are not conscious, are not sentient.

But this has me interested in something else. Who am I? Am I the body, or am I the electronic signal? I know that sounds stupid, but just think about it. If I am the body, then there has to be a way to take a dead body and give it energy. Personally, I think that's ridiculous, but everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. So if not the body itself, then consciousness comes from the energy that is inhabiting the body. If that's true, then everything has some form of consciousness, because everything a some form of energy in it, right? I don't know. Maybe consciousness comes from some mixture of vessel and energy. Maybe consciousness is simply a type of energy we don't understand. If so, than our bodies are simply running on this "Soul Power." But then that raises the question of afterlife. Where does the energy go after it leaves our bodies? Does it join up with the rest of the energy in the universe in some sort of pool? Is it possible for the energy to enter something else? Does a fetus have this "Soul Power" as soon as the sperm and egg are created? Or is it infused sometime during conception? Is the energy pool "Heaven," or are we all just fragments of a larger consciousness? Does "God" exist, but is just in a bunch of pieces?

I don't know, but I'm tired and my head hurts so I'm going to bed.

I don't know what to write about.

• I want to write music.
• I want to ramble about the existense of god and the purpose of life.
• I want to eat some soul food.
• I want to find somebody to love.
• I want to be loved.
• I want to believe in something.
• I want to have my own place.
• I want to work in a little store.
• I want to have someone who I can turn to twenty-four seven for a good time.
• I want to be content.
• I don't want fancy gadgets.
• I want fancy gadgets.
• I don't want a big house.
• I don't want to waste four years of my life paying to be trained to do a boring-ass job for the rest of my life.
• I don't want to have to fake it anymore.
• I don't know...

1. The midgets computer sucks.
2. Jon was right about Brother Ali.
3. I am mildly bored right now.
4. Ima gon' go smoke me a cig time.
   

First! =]

So. This is my first post on this new blog. This is where I tell you what to expect.

This is going to be my sounding board. This is where I'm going to write whatever I feel like writing. But since it is a blog, and one of the main reasons to create a blog is to share it, I'm going to: A- Let you read it, and B- Let whoever I feel like it, comment back.