There are various levels of mind, or mentation, in a living organism that contains multi-leveled systems. There are levels of "metabolic" mentation involving cells, tissues, and organs; and there is a "neural" mentation of the brain which consists of multiple levels corresponding to different stages of animal evolution. The human mind represents a phenomenon comprising a totality of multiple levels of mentation, of which we are only minimally aware in ordinary states of consciousness.16
Intelligence has learned to understand all there needs to be known about each hierarchical level of existence. It has learned, if it didn't already know, how to direct the use of energy and move matter at each and every level. It understands how to use the physical forces in existence, and could even perhaps have designed them. Intelligence had to be successful at every level of existence before its evolution could continue to advance to its present form.
5) Consciousness level, as it relates to material existence, is heavily dependent upon information content, and represents an awareness of stored information. The level of consciousness that any organism may potentially experience is directly proportional, either linearly or non-linearly, to its information content stored in memory. The actual level of consciousness achieved by any organism is proportional to the rate at which it can process or integrate that information. The more bits of information that can be simultaneously and instantaneously integrated or processed per unit of time, the higher the level of consciousness experienced. These concepts might be expressed mathematically:
| Level of consciousness potentially achievable  total information content.
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| Actual level of consciousness rate of information integration (number of bits of information processed per unit of time).
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The evolution of intelligence and consciousness has paralleled the evolution of organisms with higher information content. This might also be stated mathematically:
| Total bits of information stored in memory = number of bits of information for which there is awareness (consciousness) + number of bits of stored information for which there is no awareness (unconsciousness) |
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| Total intelligence quotient of organism = conscious information plus unconscious information. |
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