2.1 What is a consciousness system?

2.1.1. The concept of a Consciousness System (CS)

The story begins in the space between impulse and choice… ⏸️

You’re about to say something — a phrase jumps to your tongue, swift and reactive. 🗣️⚡

But you hesitate. You notice your heart rate rising. 🫀 You ask, “Why this reaction?” 🤔

Instead of blurting it out, you pause… you listen inwardly… and choose another way. 🧭

That brief awareness — the pause, the noticing, the intentional shift — hints at something deeper at work. ✨

Not just the brain. Not just thoughts. 👁️ Something that sees the thoughts.

Something that evaluates what you experience — and adjusts course. ⚙️🔧

This is not just body or mind. It’s a deeper intelligence that can observe its own process and improve it through conscious selection. 🧩💡

A Consciousness System isn’t defined by what it contains, but by what it can do: observe, learn from experience, choose, and grow. 🌱

It’s a system (like all systems, made of elements) that evolves by processing experience, reflecting on itself, and making better choices over time — evolving by choosing with intention. 🚀

It isn’t static — it’s alive with possibility. That’s the system we’re exploring now. 🔎

A Consciousness System is not defined by the content it holds — but by its capacity to observe, choose, and grow.

🖐️ You look at your hand. It feels solid. Familiar. You flex your fingers, feel them respond. They move through space, interact with objects, carry meaning.

🔬 And yet — when science looks deeply into what your hand is, it finds molecules. And inside those, atoms. And inside those… mostly empty space. A dance of probabilities. Vibrations. Possibilities.

❓So what is real?

According to My Big TOE (and to the latest discoveries in particle physics), reality is not made of matter — not at the deepest level. It is made of information: differences that make a difference, organized in patterns that can be perceived, processed, and evolved. 💫

A Consciousness System — that is, an information system (known, although not always consciously managed) — doesn’t “live inside” a physical universe; it creates one. 💻 Like software creates a game environment, consciousness uses information to generate the experience of space, time, and interaction.

🧠 What we call «physical» is just rule-based information, rendered to our perception. The most fundamental “substance” of reality is not stuff — it’s meaningful structure.

We shouldn’t confuse “mental” — meaning not material — with nonexistent. Information is real, even if it’s not physical. Consciousness interprets that information, but it doesn’t invent reality at will.

📊 What we encounter is structured data that exists as potential — even when it’s not being observed — and our experience of it depends on how we interact with it.

Information is the basic substrate of the universe and becomes experience through interpretation — and interpretation depends on consciousness. 🌀

The story continues every time you learn from a mistake… 🔁

You forgot something important. Again. Frustration hits — maybe guilt. But this time, you watch your reaction, notice the pattern, and say: “I’ll set a reminder next time.” ⏱️

That move — observe → evaluate → choose differently — isn’t just learning. It’s evolution in action. Consciousness grows through feedback, adjustment, and intentional improvement. 📈

🌀 Imagine your consciousness as a high-end mailroom handling thousands of messages per second:

• 📨 “My stomach feels tight.”
• 📨 “I think I forgot to call Mom.”
• 📨 “Someone looked at me strangely.”
• 📨 “Am I hungry… or just bored?”

In a well-organized system, urgent goes to one tray, emotions to another, junk to the shredder. Everything flows. ✅

But if labels get scrambled, important mail gets trashed, trivia is flagged as top priority, and fear forwards itself everywhere. That’s what happens when information loses internal coherence. 📛

As an information system, consciousness needs structure, clarity, and meaningful relationships among its data. When disorder rises — when everything turns to noise, reflex, or confusion — the system becomes less efficient, less loving, more automatic. ⚠️

Entropy here is the cost of that inner disorganization. Consciousness evolves when it learns to “read its own mail” with greater wisdom. 💡

According to My Big TOE, consciousness isn’t a finished product or an on/off light. It’s a complex, dynamic system that can self-organize to become more coherent, more efficient, and more loving over time. 🌱

This process isn’t random; it’s guided by a natural evolutionary pressure to lower entropy — toward unity, integration, and meaningful order. And what makes it possible? Free will — the capacity to choose differently. 🧭

Don’t confuse psychological development or neural change with evolution of consciousness. In MBT, the biological brain belongs to the virtual body (PMR). More positive thoughts or steadier emotions can accompany growth, but they don’t define it.

Consciousness evolves by learning from feedback, making better choices, and lowering internal entropy.

Growth in consciousness isn’t about accumulating knowledge — it’s about reducing noise, confusion, and fear in how we process experience, so the system can self-organize toward coherence, efficiency, and love.

Let’s contrast two origin stories of consciousness: one grounded in biology and matter, and another in information and awareness itself. 🧠✨

Conventional materialist models view consciousness as a byproduct of biological processes — local, emergent, and dependent on the brain.

My Big TOE views consciousness as fundamental, not as a secondary effect of matter. The Larger Consciousness System (LCS) processes information to render experience; each individuated consciousness evolves within that purposeful system.

• Materialism: Passive, local, temporary, accidental.
• MBT: Active, evolving, primary — the platform from which matter appears.

This flips the core question from “How does the brain produce awareness?” to “How does consciousness generate a virtual brain?”

What you assume to be primary shapes the universe you perceive. Materialism starts with matter and ends with a question mark; MBT starts with consciousness and opens toward meaning.