You first, Doron: Are you aware that these brain waves are _effects_ of brain function ?
It's impolite to avoid questions while asking your own.
Let's do it again, without the ? mark.
The brain waves are synchronized in such a way, which enables one's awareness to be in restful alertness (one is aware of itself without thoughts).
Wait a second. You said earlier that thought was a 'substance' that setmmed from this simplest state.
No, thought is a variant phenomenon, which is emerged from the invariant substance of all possible variant phenomena.
And this doesn't answer my question. Even if you are correct, it does not explain how your brain becomes aware of it. You seem to be under the impression that X will be aware of X because it's made of the same stuff. It's like saying that if I turn my brain to maple syrup, suddenly I will be able to communicate with another piece of maple. You need a mechanism for that, and you have not provided it.
You are still trying to get the correct answer to your question by using only the variant aspect of reality. Your question simply can't be answered by excluding the invariant aspect of reality. Transcendental Meditation (or similar techniques) actually enables you to directly be aware of the invariant substance of all possible variant phenomena (where thoughts are some variant phenomena).
Directly be aware of the invariant substance is exactly self-awareness without thoughts.
As long as you are not directly aware of yourself without thoughts, the best you can get is an endless rhetoric
about it, and this is exactly your current position as long as you are not actually practicing techniques like Transcendental Meditation.
This time please do not reject the following table
about restful alertness
Code:
SELF-AWARENESS
NO YES
+-----------+-----------+
T | | |
H YES | DREAMING | WAKING |
O | | |
U +-----------+-----------+
G | | RESTFUL |
T NO | SLEEPING | |
S | | ALERTNESS |
+-----------+-----------+
that is based on the article
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12316/pdf, which is an excellent work
about this subject.
But the most important thing is this:
Talking or thinking about X is not actually directly aware of X, and direct awareness of X can't systematically achieved without routinely actually practice techniques like Transcendental Meditation.
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It also has to be stressed that there are persons that are able to directly be aware of the simplest state of existence even if they do not practice techniques like Transcendental Meditation and in this case routine practice of techniques like Transcendental Meditation can stabilize the direct awareness of the simplest state of existence as the substance of the other three major states of consciousness in their daily life.
It also has to be stressed that there are persons that can practice techniques like Transcendental Meditation all their lives and never directly be aware of the simplest state of existence (self-awareness without thoughts).
Actually there is some poster here, that is generally ignored by me, which is probably a person that can practice techniques like Transcendental Meditation all his life and never directly be aware of the simplest state of existence (self-awareness without thoughts).
He is in my ignore list because aggressions like "
That's what the dog-turd said "I stink therefore I am!"" are dead-end street for valuable communication.
Most of the population is somewhere between these extreme cases.
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