My Big TOE: Orders of mental process

Orders of mental process
As awareness masters and refines its evolving mental capabilities, newer, more complex motivations arise as a result of and in conjunction with the first-order imperative to implement the Fundamental Process. Newer, more complex second order functions then begin influencing and driving the evolutionary process, expanding the potential number of protitable states.


First-order function: Imperative to implement the Fundamental Process.

Second-order function: The complexity and interactive properties of the mental processes evolved to implement the Fundamental Process eventually evolve second-order functions like intention, feedback, interaction, synthesis, and integration. For example, the human ability to think and process information at such high levels results in unparalleled mental synthesis, integration, and interactive feedback, which amount to second-order consciousness functionality. This higher mental function is borne of bright awareness coupled with complexity of choice.

Third-order function: Second-order processes lead to development of values (quality): enjoyment, aesthetics, ideals. These, then, are now capable of influencing the outcome of the Fundamental Process. Given awareness and choice, there is then quality and value. Human brightness, with complex sounds and symbols, leads to evolution of music, literature, arts, sciences, technology. There is now such thing as "creativity," "fun," "preference," "morality."