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The Importance of a Non-Jule Understanding
New advances in cognitive science and evolutionary biology are pointing towards our egoic state of consciousness as being a kind of filter shaped by natural selection to help us survive and reproduce. Further evidence in support of this view is the multiple cases in which head traumas have led to enhancements in consciousness. These examples support the idea that we are part of a larger mind, and that our everyday state of consciousness acts as the kind of filter,. causing us to feel a sense of separation from it.