Consciousness

This important aspect of our lives, may be the most important. Consciousness is a mental construct, just like the number zero in arithmetic, or the real line in mathematical analysis.

It seems that this movie ``Inception'', recommended to me by my son, and aptly described by Bill Robertson in the link above, touches on this concept, if not completely hinges on it.

According to Cultural Biology, as Sejnowski and Quartz describe it in their book, ``Liars, Lovers, and Heroes,'' , consciousness is also a collective, or social construct.

Children of migrant workers, as studied by Valentina Glockner here in Mexico, and in the US, construct hybrid consciousnesses. They are not Mixtec Indians, they are not Mexicans, and definitively, they are not Americans; nevertheless they do build their own egos under those hard situations, maybe in spite of that horrible attitude of most of us against them. They become persons despite our efforts to squelch their own consciousness.

We have a human right to water, as the UN just accepted. I say we have a right to consciousness.

You can read Glockner's work here, in Spanish.