[Shindra]

Originally Posted by Hayer

(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.)

I think he does. If I can dig out a quote, I'll edit it into this post.

here it is:

Originally Posted by http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/subjective-reality-qa/

So within a subjective belief system, are other people conscious like me too?
People are not conscious. Only consciousness is conscious. So in a sense, there are no other conscious people. There is only one consciousness, and all the people you perceive exist within it. And that consciousness is who and what you are. There’s only one consciousness, so there’s only one you.

In the physical universe, you can go around counting the human bodies you perceive. And you’ll find lots of them. But how many consciousnesses can you detect? Count them, and you will find you can perceive only one.

So I’m the only one who’s conscious?

Yes, you are.

If you identify with your physical body-mind, you will likely assume that your conscious awareness is something going on within your mind or your head. Hence you assume that all the other bodies you perceive also “have” a consciousness like yours, one that is separate from yours. You assume you cannot perceive other people’s conscious minds because it’s something going on inside their heads too.

But all of that is just a delusion. It’s an erroneous assumption.

The reality is that you are indeed the only one who’s conscious. But that YOU who’s conscious isn’t your body-mind. Your body-mind as well as all the other bodies you perceive exist within your consciousness. There’s only one consciousness, and that is your real identity. Everything else exists within you. That’s why you perceive only one consciousness. That’s the only consciousness that exists.