Do you know anything outside consciousness ? What ?
Be careful not to trick yourself. Try to realize that whatever answer you give, that answer takes place in your consciousness, is a creation of your consciousness. And no matter how hard you try, you cannot escape your consciousness. No matter how smart you might create your answer, it will still be just an idea in your consciousness.
Probably the greatest obstacle in realizing what consciousness is is the belief that brain generates consciousness. But brain doesn't even exist. "Brain" is just an idea in consciousness.
It's funny how it works: consciousness imagines an object, called "brain" and then somehow it tries to explain its own origin based on the object that it itself imagines in the first place.
No matter how hard you try, you cannot get outside ideas. Even when you think that you got a special case that proves that there are things outside ideas, that is an idea itself.
What do you think is going on ? Is reality just random particles bouncing around ? And we just happen to be ?
Look inside you. Close your eyes, cover your ears, remove your ego. What is left ? That is the Self.
Realize also that when everyone else follows the same procedure arrives at the same Self.
We are all one and the same Self.
Look around you. Why do you believe all those objects are real ? What is stopping you from realizing they are just pictures in your consciousness ?
Isn't it curious that you are present at all times, even though your experiences keep changing ?
Isn't it curious that even though the universe is so big, you are the main character in the movie ?
First of all, my papers can be found on my philpeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/cosmin-visan
Or on other profiles like researchgate and academia, but philepeople is the best.
So most likely I will not write here anything new. I will just write the same ideas as in my papers over and over again when I get bored and I don't know what else to do. So if you want the real deal, just read the papers. Otherwise, enjoy these lighter versions of my ideas on this blog.
Have fun!
