Consciousness and Levels of Awareness

Are you equating this with "levels of awareness" alpha, delta, etc,?

One of the four worlds of spirit is the world of spirits?

Spherical Harmonics Reveal Standing EEG Waves and Long-Range Neural Synchronization during Non-REM Sleep

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4916209/

I haven't looked at this in about 40 years, but I would bet there has been no progress, just like machine language "understanding".

Didn't say the brain "creates" mind or consciousness etc. Anytime you talk in causal terms you are almost certainly out of the mind/consciousness/awareness loop and back to physicalism. That's what makes this a tricky study.

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Common Themes in American Indian Philosophy

... one of its consequences important to this volume is that speakers of radically different languages—using radically different systems of identification, categorization, and ordering—will conceive of the world in radically different ways. Different words make different worlds. So, any translation of an American Indian language into a Western language, no matter how carefully or neutrally crafted, will recast Native thought into the conceptual categories—hence, the ontology—of the Western language. Indeed, I argue later that much of our talk about “spirits” in the Native world version makes this very mistake, giving American Indian beliefs an unwarranted air of mysticism in Western popular culture—and in the academy—because of the supernatural connotations of the Western category spirit.... After several years of reflection, I have come to believe that native Shawnee speakers specifically, and the old Indians in general, lived in a radically different world than ours

Donald Fixico (2003), an American Indian history professor, anticipates two of our four common themes in American Indian philosophy, relatedness and circularity as world-ordering principles, when he observes that: “Indian Thinking” is “seeing” things from a perspective emphasizing that circles and cycles are central to the world and that all things are related within the universe. . . . “Seeing” is visualizing the connection between two or more entities or beings, and trying to understand the relationship between them.

There is another very curious and interesting fact in Indian philosophy. They do not separate man from the beast by any broad line of demarcation. Mankind is supposed simply to be one of the many races of animals; in some respects superior, in many others inferior, to those races. So the Indian speaks of “our race” as of the same rank with the bear race, the wolf race or the rattlesnake race.

I conclude that an American Indian world is, indeed, numbered among the internally consistent, equally privileged, well-made actual worlds and so it is worthy of philosophical treatment—and respect—from the Western perspective.

Nearly all the tribes in the Congo Basin either are or have been cannibals; and among some of them the practice is on the increase. Races who until lately do not seem to have been cannibals, though situated in a country surrounded by cannibal races, have, from increased intercourse with their neighbours, learned to eat human flesh.