Week 7, Consciousness

The short section on chaos and consciousness in the packet made me think about how much our consciousness is connected with the consciousness of other humans, other beings, and all the other forms of consciousness out there. Maybe consciousness is in autopoiesis, constantly re-emerging and re-creating itself throughout the universe. If "every point in the space-time grid is consciousness", then consciousness seems to be one of the basic things in the universe, existing in tandem with everything else. Thus, it would seem possible to expand consciousness if we where able to connect with all the consciousness around us.