by Kenneth Harper Finton

Before we can have a world, we need events. To have events we need an observer. To have an observation we need awareness of an object or an event. The essential quality for observation or interaction is to have awareness of an object. Observers are generally thought of as being people, but they can also be a system. An observer is a person or a system that observes. An interaction is an observation. It is part of the cognitive universe.

Alertness is triggered by perceptive awareness. Awareness is then the first cause because it is responsible for recognizing objects and events. Objects and events exist in time and space. In the two-dimensional plane, objects are flat, like drawings. They can barely be distinguished from their backgrounds. Awareness, certainly, appears in three-dimensional realities, as the third dimension is a conceptual dimension; three dimensions have to be seen from above conceptually.

Life is awareness, and awareness is life. Perception comes in myriad forms and degrees. It is present in all living things. It is present as prehension and in inanimate things. When organized, awareness becomes consciousness. All things are formed from the eternal and non-material awareness, which has always been present, as the eternal now is ever-present. This is where the concept of the cognizant universe is most evident. If there were to have been an evolutionary path through the birthing of elements in stars, there had to be an observer.

When a change occurs in the dimensional universe, it is recorded physically by changes in the matter of the universe. [Rock hits a rock, and forms a crater. Cut your toe, feel the pain, see the injury.] Every event occurs at a specific point in time and space. Spacetime is a recording device in which every event, no matter how large or small, is recorded.

Matter behaves like both a particle and a wave. Matter is the temporal recording medium of physical change. Events are coded physically and stored to form our mental experience. The dimensional process of thought and alert awareness constantly creates our consciousness in the present moment.