The MoM Consciousness Theory Posits:

• The fundamental constitution of consciousness involves having multiple goals, and continuously adjudicating across such goals so as to operationalize action continuously in the world.

  • One can think of an organism’s consciousness as containing a fluid, but nested, hierarchy of goals.

  • These goals are not a matter of intentionality, but intersectionality, the Darwinian byproduct of embodiment meeting the world. It’s a matter of inclusive fitness, i.e., random variation then survival of the fittest.

• These goals have a corollary action in the world, and a corollary mechanism amongst the organism (e.g., the need for energy for a human has the corollary action of obtaining food in the world and is activated mechanistically, bio-chemically via the hormone Ghrelin).

  • Some goals have simple corollary actions and mechanisms, other goals have complex corollary actions and mechanisms. Though, the continuous process of rank-ordering one’s nested hierarchy of goals makes is possible that the organism can manifest any of its goals, at any time, along with the subsequent action as mediated mechanistically, under the right conditions.

• The organism’s goals, hierarchy of goals, and means by which to adjudicate across such goals continuously (known as perception) are the modest byproduct of the experiential existence in which an organism or an organism’s consciousness finds itself.

  • Heidegger referred to the randomness of the time and place in which your consciousness finds itself as thrownness.

  • Equally, one should conceptualize that the very specific time and place in which a consciousness finds itself also determines how that very consciousness develops. I.e., genetics, epigenetics, and experience further shape one’s goals and subsequently consciousness. The MoM consciousness theory terms this concept extreme thrownness.