I didn't read all 4 pages of this huge debate, but the way I see it right now is that consciousness is everywhere, and the brain is what contains personality, intellect, and the ability to perceive the world through the senses. When consciousness hits (or creates) the brain, the brain turns on and starts perceiving and thinking, and the brain is what creates the ego using the consciousness that moves through it. Obviously this is an illusion, because the brain is just a tool that consciousness created to perceive itself. When we die, get knocked out, exc, consciousness just does not move through the brain, so the ego does not function. Consciousness remains unharmed.
Awareness might be something seperate from consciousness though, I'm not sure.
Still haven't figured this stuff out, and who knows if I ever will, but I love discussing it.
Erock
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