Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.
Consciousness is a disease.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.