How Would You Define Consciousness In Your Own Words?

[Rilles]

3 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

I read like a few post in this thread and two of them had circular definitions. Something to be conscious of.

Im beginning to hate the word consciousness, Im just gonna throw it out the window and hope it hits a lightpole. 

[Carl-Richard]

5 minutes ago, Rilles said:

Im beginning to hate the word consciousness, Im just gonna throw it out the window and hope it hits a lightpole. 

Where does frustration rank on the pole of consciousness?

[Rilles]

3 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Where does frustration rank on the pole of consciousness?

Well if the light is at the top and light is consciousness then probably somewhere at the bottom where the dogs piss.

[Carl-Richard]

5 minutes ago, Rilles said:

Well if the light is at the top and light is consciousness then probably somewhere at the bottom where the dogs piss.

But the light shines on everything does it not?

Now this is just messing around.

Edited 18 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[UnbornTao]

On 1/8/2026 at 9:53 AM, Leo Gura said:

@Entrepreneur Do you remember the first time in your life when you realized you are alive, that you exist? You lived for years before you became conscious that you exist.

That was a moment of higher consciousness.

Notice that most of the day you are not conscious that you exist. You just do stuff unconsciously on auto-pilot. Occassionally you stop and notice you exist.

Awakening is like that, but 100x more potent.

Notice you are less conscious when you are tired, sleepy, or feeling strong negative emotions like anger.

Higher consciousness is hyper sobriety and awareness of your own existence. Normies are like drunk by comparison to an Awake person.

If you just sit silently and train your attention on the fact that you exist, your consciousness increases gradually.

That is... probably why you think that psychedelics increase consciousness. 

[Davino]

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