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Let me have a go.
The mind is a system which can build sophisticated models of its environment or even invent new ones. Don't know what you mean by "greater consciousness as a whole".
Why does it have to be a two way relationship. And surely consciousness can be of something other than reality.
And this 'soul' is presumably different to your consciousness? The existence of a soul is without evidence.Originally posted by Iacchus32
I guess I'm more concerned with the "quality of consciousness," as this is what concerns me "specifically."
And yes I do have an entity, which is my soul, which is the very part of me that "remains conscious."
Originally posted by Iacchus32
So what is it about being cognizant (conscious) that allows us to acknowledge the truth of anything? Is it just the neurons in our brain? Or, is there something more to it than that? Like a "greater consciousness" as a whole?
The mind is a system which can build sophisticated models of its environment or even invent new ones. Don't know what you mean by "greater consciousness as a whole".
Originally posted by Iacchus32
Wouldn't it be fair to say that consciousness entails the "awareness of reality?" If so, isn't it also conceivable that reality must in some sense entail consciousness? Otherwise, how does anything -- i.e., in terms of its relationship -- "recognize" anything else?
Why does it have to be a two way relationship. And surely consciousness can be of something other than reality.