Secret Seven, this conversation is so interesting to me, too. I’m loving this dialogue and the questions you’ve brought up, and the responses.
I hope I don’t add any confusion but here’s my take on it:
The way I’ve heard it described is that what is looking through my eyes is the same awareness that is looking through your eyes and the eyes of every other living thing. This is the real “you.” I’ve heard Steve Pavlina say that consciousness is like the programmer and you (small you/the leaf on the tree) is like a character in a video game.
So from the real “you” perspective, none of the other billions of bodies/consciousnesses exist, and neither does yours--we’re all characters in a game/dream. But the real “you” does exist and is streaming though everyone’s eyes--yours, mine, etc. continuously creating the game/dream. (I don’t think Steve Pavlina is saying that other humans aren’t conscious, or that they disappear from existence when you’re not aware of them.)
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