How do we know whose expanding consciousness we allow to filter and alter our expanding consciousness and what information is spammed data that should be disregarded?

Is Rick's expanding consciousness ethical according to objective reality, not our perceptions of his regurgitated data?

Interesting?

When is it out with the old and in with the new?

I think you may be making the common mistake of confusing consciousness with information.

What is consciousness but a storage house of information.

I think the brain in general is the storage house of consciousness.

We have to be conscious of our memories and thoughts and feelings, etc., which in turn have to be stored somewhere for conscious retrieval.

I don't know I'm even starting to confuse myself with this circle of knowledge.

Is knowledge a circle, where information is cyclical?

or

Is knowledge a tree that branches?

or

Is knowledge linear, vertical or horizontal?

or

Is knowledge a square, where one thinks inside and outside the box?

Expansion/Contraction. Expansion/Contraction. Expansion/Contraction. Expansion/Contraction. Expansion/Contraction. Expansion/Contraction.

1 step > and 2 steps <. 1 step > and 2 steps <. 1 step > and 2 steps <.

Multi-dimensional space, macro cosmically vs. micro cosmically, and the next (or is it current?) spatial cognitive paragigm, Quantum cosciousness.

The gestalt of it all, eh?

If I can throw 2 cents in here, consciousness is very process oriented, like RAM in a computer. Data stored in the brain could be equated to a hard drive.
Good data and good processing (intelligence) are both distinct and important for a desirable output/outcome.

The human fly in the ointment is that logic is actually predicated on how one chooses to feel. Choose wisely.

Answering the first board post, the policy I adopt is to read new knowledge, read and listen to other peoples unproven ideas and integrate all this information with my own experiences of life (mine and others I know) and see what 'drops out' after more personal thought and sleep (ie., subconcious consideration).
I have to feel intuitively 'right' about my new concepts which may have been culled from all the data.
This is not like an exercise, it's just what happens for me.

I have to presume that others 'work' the same way, but don't presume that there aren't other ways of going about finding the Truth.
I know some people are happy to just accept what somebody else says without really thinking about the probability of the correctness of the information. This is just a fact of life. They may be lazy, too busy with family and work, unable to think any more deeply etc., etc. No-matter what the reason, you can't force anyone to do things they can't or don't do (you can try).

And the search is most satisfying, especially complemented by the endless information now availble on the web.