The study of how groups of conscious beings collectively shape each other's inner experiences through culture, language, and the simple act of being together. It examines why laughter is contagious, why crowds develop a shared mood, and why being alone in a room full of people feels different from actually being alone. It's the field that asks: if consciousness is private, how do we manage to synchronize it so effectively at concerts, protests, and awkward family dinners? The answer seems to be something like "vibes," which is not a scientific term but is apparently accurate.
Example: "A consciousness social sciences study observed that when one person in a meeting yawned, the entire room would follow within 90 seconds. This unconscious synchronization suggested that despite their individual private awarenesses, the group was operating as a single, slightly bored, collective consciousness. The researchers then yawned and went to lunch."
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Get the Consciousness Social Sciences mug.The ambitious practice of trying to redesign your own subjective experience, essentially attempting to rewire the software of your soul. It's the project of eliminating bad habits, installing new mental patterns, and debugging the emotional glitches that keep crashing your happiness. The problem is that the engineer is also the system being engineered, leading to paradoxes like "I'm trying to force myself to be more accepting" and "I'm aggressively meditating on patience." Most consciousness engineering projects result in the same system, running the same code, but now with a fancy new name.
*Example: "She attempted some consciousness engineering to become a 'morning person.' She bought a smart alarm, installed wake-up lights, and programmed affirmations. Her engineered consciousness now woke up at 5 AM, fully aware that it was supposed to feel great, but secretly longing for the sweet oblivion of 9 AM. The engineering had created a more sophisticated form of suffering."*
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Get the Consciousness Engineering mug.The tools and techniques designed to alter, expand, or monitor your state of awareness, ranging from ancient meditation practices to modern brain-zapping headbands. This includes float tanks (expensive baths in the dark), psychedelics (illegal but effective), and meditation apps that guide you to mindfulness while also tracking your screen time. The paradox of consciousness technologies is that the more gadgets you use to "find yourself," the further you drift from the simple awareness that was there all along, usually while checking your phone.
Consciousness Technologies Example: "He bought a $400 consciousness technology headband that promised to induce deep meditative states. After a month, he'd achieved a state of profound relaxation while simultaneously feeling intense anxiety about whether the headband was working. He concluded that this contradiction was the meditation."
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Get the Consciousness Technologies mug.The interdisciplinary field that attempts to study the one thing you can't put under a microscope: the subjective experience of being alive. It's the science of why red looks red, why music gives you chills, and why there's "something it's like" to be you. Consciousness sciences bring together neuroscientists who look at brain scans, philosophers who ask "yes, but why?", and mystics who just smile enigmatically. After decades of research, the field has conclusively proven that consciousness exists and that nobody has the faintest idea how.
Example: "He spent his career in consciousness sciences trying to locate the seat of self-awareness in the brain. He found lots of correlated neural activity but no actual 'self.' His final paper concluded that he, as a researcher, might also be an illusion, which made writing the paper complicated."
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Get the Consciousness Sciences mug.The state of being aware not just of your existence in this particular spacetime-probability coordinate, but of the fact that you exist across all coordinates simultaneously. True five-dimensional consciousness means recognizing that the "you" experiencing this moment is just one branch of an infinite multiversal self, and that every choice you could have made is being made by another version of you somewhere in probability-space. This realization is either profoundly liberating (nothing matters, all versions exist) or deeply unsettling (I am responsible for infinite versions of myself, and some of them are terrible people). Most people spend their lives avoiding this realization, which is why they stick to three-dimensional thinking and refuse to contemplate the parallel versions of themselves that are currently making better life choices.
Example: "After a meditation retreat focused on spacetime-probability consciousness, he returned convinced that he was simultaneously a billionaire, a homeless person, a famous artist, and a guy who never left his parents' basement. His friends asked which version they were currently talking to. He said 'the one who still owes me twenty bucks from last week,' which narrowed it down considerably."
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Get the Spacetime-Probability Consciousness mug.The state of being aware of oneself as an N-dimensional entity, with extensions and aspects in every accessible dimension, rather than a可怜的 3D creature trapped in a linear timeline. Achieving N-dimensional consciousness means recognizing that the "you" experiencing this moment is just a slice of a vast hyperdimensional self that exists across all dimensions simultaneously, making choices, having experiences, and occasionally wondering why its 3D slice is so worried about things that, in higher dimensions, are obviously trivial. Most people never achieve this state, which is probably for the best—full N-dimensional awareness would be overwhelming, like being in every room of every house you've ever lived in, at every moment of your life, all at once.
N-Dimensional Consciousness Example: "After a particularly intense meditation session, he claimed to have achieved N-dimensional consciousness and seen his infinite selves across all dimensions. 'In one dimension,' he reported, 'I'm a billionaire. In another, I'm a poet. In another, I'm a potato.' His friends asked which dimension he was currently in. He said 'the one where I'm telling you this,' which they found deeply unsatisfying."
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