Human Beings, being: Conscious Awareness

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Why this book?A long time ago and soon after in Sunday school, I began to doubt doubt and the existence of “a god.” I wandered off the reservation…it was no accident. “How could you have something when you had nothing?” That question has plagued me most of my life. Years later, in his books I would meet Michael S. A. Graziano, referencing him directly and indirectly in several of my writings. He is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University and we have yet to meet personally. His scientific research focuses on the brain basis of awareness. Someday perhaps, we shall converse face to face, aware and share our mutual interests for the benefit of only ourselves since there are few others who seek our common interests.Awareness is key to human existence and finally giving into curiosity it became my intention to know more. Can it be that without intention we have nothing? I am first a fine artist and we like to debate such things ad nauseum. No big deal to you, I understand this and thus you may immediately put this book back on the shelf unattended and unintended but before you do maybe you’ll hear me out just a bit. Do accidents just happen? Some say they are God’s will, others say “shit happens,” and still others say everybody lies. Are they all the result of or connected by intention and if so how or whose?If you understood yourself and intention, might it improve your life and that of others? History has recorded prejudices forever and at the root of it all is/are their “intention.” This is presumed a conscious act of will. In the 1980’s the American physiologist Benjamin Libet claimed to demonstrate that we have no free will. Is it then obvious that our former free will was or is somebody’s intention?In my family there are players who, by most people’s measure, are mean spirited. For me to understand them I ask is this their real or final intention? More importantly, and like most people, do they even think about their intentions? Are they to be forgiven for without free will we/they are left with the devil made them do it? I wonder what our world would be like if we asked such questions more often? Might a better understanding of free will improve my life and those I come in contact with? At least I feel free to ask.