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Originally Posted by SecretSeven  You said that only one of us is conscious........Soo....Are you saying that you aren't conscious? Lol, cuz I certainly am conscious. |
You would say that, wouldn't you
By this I mean, don't believe egos who say they are consciousness.
as Steve explained about solipsism in
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...-reality-qa-3/.
It would be mighty egoistical for one ego to claim ownership of consciousness. A middle road is to say that there are many conscious egos. The other end is that consciousness is primary, consciousness 'owns' egos instead of the other way around. Though ownership is really a concept of egoism ("mine not yours"), so please don't get caught up in that word. 'Owning' becomes being when it is no longer a game egos play. If you're aware of something, you are that, it is in you - owning in that sense, like you own your mind and your body, heart and lungs and all.
It's a tricky concept to look at from within objective reality, but I've experienced that once you start trying to move your beliefs into singular subjective reality, it simultaneously begins to make more sense. It's a perspective - hard to speak of a perspective you've never had. But yes, there really is only one consciousness.
Questions, I've found, hold value. Does your thumb have a consciousness of it's own? Think of that concept.
There is only one consciousness of all, and from that perspective, saying things are independently conscious is strange.
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"now both of us know who's reality this really is, don't we? Whichever one of us is the conscious being here." - Steve in podcast 'the true nature of reality'