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The Origins of Consciousness
In the non-dual traditions, it is suggested that consciousness is the primary and fundamental reality. But no neurologist or brain surgeon has ever found consciousness in the brain. The body you experience as a flow of sensations and perceptions, yes? Yes. A sensation is not itself aware. A sensation cannot hear something. It is awareness, what we call awareness, that is aware of experience. And I is the common name for awareness. That's why we say I am aware of my thoughts. So, I is the name we give to that element of our experience that is aware. We are aware of the body. Right, the body is not aware. There's an awareness. There