Does All Begin with Consciousness?

Section 1 Opens Up Fundamental Worldview Issues First Discussing Implications Of Our World'S Totally-Holarchic Open-Ended Substructure Then Explaining Why We Should Use The Principle Of Parsimony Not Only Conventionally But Also To Banish Needless And Overly Broad Simplifications-And How This Has Relevance To Limitations Of Reductionist Science. Section 2 Explores Evocative Questions About Consciousness From A Monist Perspective Pointing Towards Observables That Are Not Object-Like And Kinds Of Change That Are Non-Mechanical. This Leads Toward Understanding Consciousness As Meta-Change Identical To Creation. The Essays (I) Propose That What'S Re-Organizing Itself Is The Organism'S Dynamic (Predictive) Internal Model Of Itself-In-Its-World; (Ii) Examine Reasons Why This Continuous Creation (Cc) Metatheory Of Consciousness Has Generally Not Been Self-Evident; Then (Iii) Elaborate The Means By Which Conscious Re-Organizing Is Postulated To Work; (Iv) Begin To Discuss Implications (For Mind Evolution And For Entropy-Levels In Life-Systems) Of This View Of Consciousness; And (V) End With Neurophysiological Speculations. Section 3 Begins With Discussion Of The Consciousness 'Hard' Problem In Relation To Cc Metatheory; Then Shows How That Metatheory Relates To Two Other Theories Of Consciousness; And Finishes By Presenting The Metatheory'S Social And Ethical Implications.