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Consciousness: Where Does It Come From?

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What Is Your Consciousness?

Who I am is my consciousness, even more than my body, I think. It's weird how we like identify so strongly with our consciousness more than almost every other part of our body. You know what also freaks me out is that our brain is like in our skull and complete darkness. Our brain is like this gelatinous thing locked in our skull in complete silence and darkness. Like there's hardly any sound. There's hardly any vibration. So like, but it is what's making me see and hear and touch everything, but it's never touched anything. It's incomplete dark. That's an interesting way to think about, which is also different levels and weird. And actually,

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