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What is consciousness made of?

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What is the substance of consciousness? What is consciousness made of? What’s the ultimate “thing” of existence?

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Itself. This is the substance of This . This is this. 


"life is not a problem to be solved ..its a mystery to be lived "

-Osho

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Consciousness is exactly what you are experiencing. That's it.


You are what you currently desire. ❤️

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What else could it be? Other than it's own perpetuality?

It is the bottom that creates the bottom.


hrhrhtewgfegege

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It can't be made of anything, since it imagines all things.

Consciousness is undefined.


You are God. You are Truth. You are Love. You are Infinity.

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@73809 Consciousness is meaning. And as meaning, its qualities are determined by contexts. Have a look at my paper "Is Qualia Meaning or Understanding?": https://philpeople.org/profiles/cosmin-visan

And then to find out even more about the interplay between meanings and contexts, check-out "Telepathy: A Real-World Experiment".

Edited by Cosmin_Visan

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To know what consciousness is first you have to locate it. But since it cant be located we would have to infer it doesnt have substance. Hence its nothing. Yet its there isnt it... Its a very mysterious nothing. ;) 

Edited by Rilles

Dont look at me! Look inside!

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It's made of neurons.


If you have no confidence in yourself, you are twice defeated in the race of life. But with confidence you have won, even before you start.” -- Marcus Garvey

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1 minute ago, Gesundheit said:

It's made of neurons.

Its atoms bouncing around in a box. 


Dont look at me! Look inside!

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13 minutes ago, Rilles said:

Its atoms bouncing around in a box. 

The strange-loop you missed, though.


If you have no confidence in yourself, you are twice defeated in the race of life. But with confidence you have won, even before you start.” -- Marcus Garvey

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"Consciousness is made of matter" = materialist paradigm.

"Matter is made of consciousness" = idealist paradigm.

A strange loop? When you collapse the duality of consciousness and matter, what's it called?  A philosophical name is the "neutral monad"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_monism   although it's a slightly awkward name. So I prefer to call it being, love, suchness or even (on a good day) God instead.


Relax, it's just my loosely held opinion.  :) 

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Consciousness is made from the alphabet. But what do I know? But how do I know that I don't know? Arghh... help.... me.....


All stories and explanations are false.

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It's an absolute nothing that do things... mistery

Edited by Breakingthewall

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