The Latin origin of the word, conscious, in the 16th
century stems from the com + scire, or to know
together. It's interesting that the word has lost its
sense of "togetherness" and is now more individual. I
think the 2 characters of "Eyes Wide Shut" are
"conscious" at the end of the movie. They "know
together." It's questionable whether Cruz's character
is conscious up until the end (his performance
notwithstanding). So maybe the word "conscious" came
out of the social level and is now bastardized into
the "self-conscious" by the intellectual level. The
evolution of the word seems to fit Pirsig's system.
And movies like "Eyes Wide Shut" show we are beginning
to transcend the intellectual into vision-logic or
something transpersonal.
Angus
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