Picture #1

Photo from stephaniecowell.com

I feel as though this title I've chosen for my blog requires some explanation, and so I'll use this first picture to do that. Of course, at the end, I'll have to tie it back in to define an aspect of my worldview or personality, but we'll get to that I'm sure. Assuming you're reading this after I've changed the title from the quite dapper and adequately sane "Superturtle Pantaloon", it is now called Conscience and Consciousness. Aside from sounding like a rejected Jane Austen novel, those two words are very important concepts to me. They are also two words that have been taken to mean several things over time, so here their definitions:

Conscience- An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

Consciousness- The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings, the awareness or perception of something.

If the idea of conscience is your reaction to the world around you, based upon your past experiences, and consciousness is your reality (or your perception, if you believe those two words to be interchangeable, as I do), then are Conscience and Consciousness not the basis of every experience we've ever had? And when you think about it, is life not but one interaction, between yourself and the world around you? I'm not sure  myself, and perhaps that picture up there is supposed to portray this pondering uncertainty: The empty chair representing something unnatural, unsure of its place, its existence only validated by the people who interact with it.

I have no idea, but this picture is supposed to portray that I like trees.