What could be an accurate model or representation of the human organism? Quite often, when we think or feel about ourselves or others around us, we do so in terms of entities or images that have attributes/characteristics which may or may not change under situational/environmental demands. However, what we realize in practice, is that this model is quite inadequate and falls short of accurately portraying and predicting our own as well as others' behavior. Despite the shortfall, the human organism continues to rely on thoughts, senses, and emotions as arbiters of measurement of reality. Through out our lives, we struggle because we believe that somehow we are insufficient or lacking in abstracting the "right" representation and if we "analyze" or "look deeper, further, and harder", we will be able to eventually "perceive" the correct model/image.

But what are we "perceiving?" The human organism is activated/moved/motivated by several interactions of its sense, which are themselves a representational memory of its evolutionary past and its faculties of thought and emotion, which are yet again, based on memory. These senses and faculties, collect nourishment, both physically and psychologically, from within and without to sustain themselves and hence, the whole organism. We can conceive and actually see human beings lacking in one or two senses or faculties (emotional autism, severe mental retardation, etc.) but usually consider one a "vegetable" if one is deprived of all of them.

As we modulate in time from blastula to apoptosis or senescence, these senses and faculties, individually and collectively, cooperate and compete, within a dynamic range of response. And because our thought has predetermined categories within this modulation, and has come up with milestones of health, we assume that as long as those milestones are reached, somehow, there must be an over-riding coherence in all of this - a "homeostasis" within and perhaps, by inference, without. But really, is there such as thing as "homeostasis" outside of human thought?

A physically healthy person by measures of medicine may be psychologically brimming with anger, jealousy, greed, craving, etc., and vice versa. Again, we have created measures of how much greed, selfishness, jealousy is "normal." Senses quite often override chemical and physical devastation of organ systems within, with the result that the person is oblivious to silent diseases with in and is "acting" to promote them, e.g., diabetus, cancer, heart disease, etc. These senses could also be influenced by thought and emotions and vice versa. So amongst this melee of the past attempting to exert its influence on the present, what is the raison d'etre of awareness?

Notice awareness is the only thing (whatever one wants to call it, faculty, sense, or something else) unique that actually delineates time but not as we know it. This may sound ironic but really there is no "now" without awareness. Time is a continuum for all the other senses and faculties. We may say, present, past, and future but really, what is present but the past? What is future but the present modified by the past? The senses and faculties do not stop at "now" or "given an impulse" react. They are continually responding in time - continually. Life does not present experiments like in the animal laboratories to look at responses within truncated intervals of chronological time and prepare conclusions on powerpoint as if the immediate past is separate from the distant or geological past and the immediate future separate from the geological future.

So everything within a human or a living organism is a continuous function in time, which itself is a created entity of how thought perceives "awareness." When we "become conscious of the now" into which the senses and faculties of thought and emotion are flowing, that is what can create a "stepping out of time", out of the flow, heck out of the continuity. That awareness has NO past or future as we define time. It is only NOW! The mistake our faculty of thought does is to categorize the uncategorizable "now" and create a psychological and chronolgical past prior to "now" and a future post "now". But really, all such time is simply non-awareness.

In the NOW, a branch of a huge tree can be aware of the hundreds of distinctive other branches both within and other "types" of trees, and see, that while to the senses and the faculties of thought and emotion, all appear different, they point to not only a seed from which all have arisen but to a continuity in time from which all seeds had to have taken birth. A reflection of this can only be a concept but only in awareness can a being act to live as a whole within and without.