What Is Consciousness?

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Buddhism is about the minimiing of suffering for all beings, and consciousness itself. But i think we don't have to use the word child to talk about a lifelong process of development and maturation. I've sought out deeper and deeper thinkers over my lifetime who could meet that complexity where i was at. And so you can imagine these kind of developmental ais that actually, again, not treating us as children, but treating us as in a learning and growth. That's the most humane answer that i can think of that's still optimizing more for an individual.

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