Abstract

The structure of consciousness starts with some unidentified innate capabilities of consciousness which consists of the five physical sense organs, four faculties of mind, and three types of knowledge known as, perceptual knowledge, conceptual knowledge and intuitive knowledge that together form knowledge of the human mind and consciousness. These three-tier levels of conscious activities of the human mind and consciousness is postulated as a “five-four-three” (5, 4, 3) Architecture of consciousness. The “five-four-three pathways of consciousness” means that these are the three conduits for the acquisition of knowledge about all phenomena and objects of the external world that the human mind and consciousness can be aware of. The digit five (5) stands for the five physical sense organs of seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting and feeling, that report sensations of objects of the external world to the human mind and consciousness. The digit four (4) stands for the four different faculties of mind known as the Perceptual-mind, Imagination, Reason and Superego/conscience that constitutes the four voices (4-faculties of mind) that human beings think with. The digit three (3) stands for the three types of knowledge known as perception (from the perceptual-mind), conception (from both the Imagination and the human Reason), and intuition (from the superego/conscience) that constitute the human thinking system. Hence, five physical sense organs, four faculties of mind and three categories of knowledge form the total capabilities of the human mind and consciousness. In other words, this five-four-three (5, 4, 3) architecture of consciousness is like the DNA of the human body. Nothing outside the DNA can be found in the human body that is not already part of the DNA. In the same way, no human awareness or intelligence can exist as part of the human mind and consciousness without it already being part of the five, four, three architecture of consciousness. Thus, the five-four-three (5, 4, 3) architecture of consciousness indicates that consciousness is not monist but consciousness consists of different faculties of mind, each with different abilities for acquiring knowledge. This means the structure of the human mind and consciousness laid out in this research forms the compendium of human awareness and human knowledge of the world in general. There is nothing more or less beyond the structure of human mind and consciousness.