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Lindy Lee- Conflagrations From the End of Time (1), 2009. Paper, fire, 76 x 56 cm
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Jan Toorop- Desire and Fulfillment (1893)
On the nature of consciousness
So even though consciousness is not geometrical or spatial, we can imagine consciousness to be a process that continuously transforms one shape into another. It is a shaping process rather than a proper shape. In other words, the shape of consciousness modulates the shapes and forms that constitute our mental-emotional inner lives. While we are used to think about shapes as spatial configurations, the shaping process of consciousness can be thought of as a spatiotemporal shape – a shape that extends to the temporal dimension as well. With this conceptual twist we can use the terms ‘shape’ and ‘shaping’ interchangeably we only add the time dimension to the description. Last but not least, consciousness does not possess a fixed shape of course. It is rather a variety of shapes with a common, more or less, stable attractor. So when speaking of the shape of consciousness it is this representative common attractor that we address.
