Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
Consciousness is a disease.
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
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.
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