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.
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For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
Consciousness is a disease.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
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.
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
Life is a state of consciousness.
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