User:Laxystem/Consciousness

Consciousness:Consciousness is where internal communication and thought happens within a plural system. Some systems share a consciousness while others may have multiple.

Consciousness is a complex yet fundamental topic, and it may hard for one to fully understand it, especially if the body they reside in only has one consciousness. Consciousnesses can be thought of as similar to computer threads - that is, a sequence of instructions (with access to the computer's storage, memory, display, etc.), multiple of which can be executed at a time. Programs (in this case, headmates) can send instructions (thoughts) to a thread (consciousness) to perform.

Headmates can be a part of (that is, can send instructions to) any number of consciousnesses, and some can think in multiple consciousness at the same time (see Paraconscious for more information about the topic). A headmate that isn't a part of any consciousness may be considered Dormant, as they're unable to send instructions - that is, think. Choosing which consciousness to use is often intuitive, but it is a skill that can be trained with experience and time.

Consciousnesses within a system are usually structured in a consistent way. Monoconscious systems have a single consciousness everyone is a part of, and in polyconscious systems, each headmate has their own consciousness. There are many more consciousness structures - those are merely the most commonly known ones. Some systems have subsystems, that may have a different consciousness structure to the rest of the system.

Headmates in the same consciousness can usually communicate with each other easily, being able to hear and feel each other's thoughts and feelings. It's much harder to communicate cross-consciousnesses than within one, as it is often easier to know in what consciousness something was thought than to know who said it. This sometimes causes subsystems to form around consciousnesses that find it harder to communicate.

Consciousnesses affect fronting - fixumconscious systems have specific consciousnesses headmates need to enter in order to front, and in raconscious systems, headmates can front from any consciousness.

Singlets usually have a single, unuconscious consciousness.

It is important to note that nothing about consciousnesses is rigid - everything can change over time, even a consciousness's members (see Dynaconscious for more information).

To Do
Before this page can be published, the following must be done:


 * Explain leaving and joining a consciousness in Dynaconscious.
 * Explain concurrent thinking and its relation to multitasking in Paraconscious.
 * Rename Category:-conscious Terms to "Terms that describe consciousnesses", and potentially add it to Template:Term.
 * Create a category for consciousness structure.
 * Create a category for terms that describe consciousness concurrency.
 * Make sure the information in this page is true for median systems.

Related Terms

 * Terms with the -conscious suffix describe the varius consciousness types.
 * Memory management types commonly overlap with consciousness types, making both hard to define individually.