"The world is made for consciousness, for each consciousness. "
             This excerpt was found in our textbook on page 153 or on page 12 of Miguel de Unamuno's The Tragic Sense of Life. The grounds that I believe this quote to uphold are that of reason. We are speaking of this claim upon the same grounds.
             First of all, this claim upholds the existentialist position on life, in the fact that each individual in consciousness is presented the opportunity to create his/her own destiny. The essence of life and choices is completely self created as stated by Unamuno.
             To me a sense of life is an emotional world view that is shaped by us and our surroundings, events that have changed us, our subconscious, and so on. Then through maturation we mix all these emotions together and transform all of our unique and individual sense's of life into one conscious state of mind. There are many different ways the conscious mind can be thought of, as I will be examining a few. I believe that there are many people out there who are technically conscious, yet they have no consciousness either they choose not to use there tool in their head, or they've been warped by social conformity.
             Have you ever met anyone who seemed to you like a drone? One of those people who wakes up to go to work, and goes to bed early for work. It seems to me these sort of people lose the conscious state of mind. Although they are conscious people there mind never escapes the routine box to which they have conformed their mind.
             Unamuno says "If the sun possessed consciousness it would think, no doubt, that it lived in order to give light to the worlds;" as the sun is inanimate, it produces light, the light rays are it's offspring. So as far as humanity, was he trying to say that in our conscious state of mind we are to only think of reproduction? He claimed the sun would enjoy shedding light to our planets as ...