what_consciousness_is

[Psychology//Philosophy]               -MACS {xyn0n@protonmail.ch}
File: What consciousness is.txt#
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Consciousness is an illusion and we are the same separated by perception.
There's no such thing as death or life if those meanings were just formed by our consciousness as a method of survival. Everything that we can perceive, is elaborated as a method for us to survive and anything can be true or false depending on the circumstances. From bacteria and cellular bodies forming a complex organism such as a jellyfish which mindlessly eats zooplanktom to survive, to humans whom have elaborated an civilization to survive that was derived by communication. Life's only meaning is to survive and anything can be true for it to survive.


Civilization was derived by our primitive instincts of using socialization as a method of surviving. We like to communicate in his meme of modernity, as a method of surviving in the stone age it has still been a part of our perception in modernity. Likewise a human would get angry if he were threatened in such a way that would impede his ego thus damage his chances of survival in this civilization. This results in a form of social anxiety if someone were to hinder your reputation, for example; if you were to embarrass yourself during a public speech, you would perceive it in a manor that would damage your ego and thus damage other peoples assurance of you.


Perception is all very different for everyone of us; we all perceive reality in a very different way and different people have different ways of fitting into a society. Some of us may rev our cars to give us a euphoric feeling from dopamine in our brains; so we would perceive it to as a method of fitting in and if you fit into society more by doing that, then you would merely get rewarded with more dopamine to increase your chances of doing that again for survival in a civilization. Whilst others may use a diplomatic approach and try to validate their knowledge to fit in a group of scientists and make their ideas seem true.


Anything can be right or wrong depending on your perception. Growing up to china; you may think it's good to eat a dog, whilst western cultures would consider it bad. We can't control other people nor can we perceive what they perceive, this experience as well as consciousness itself gives us the illusion that we have a soul. Because of what we understand, it's hard to believe that consciousness decimates when we die. Everyday you wake up to be a different person with different experiences, but you perceive yourself to be the same person you were yesterday because you can remember being yourself yesterday. Whilst another person can have completely different memories from you; he would too be considered the same person he was yesterday because of his memories, but he is not you because he has not had any memories of 'being' you. That's how we perceive ourself to be separate beings. If there were a way of destroying yourself then perfectly reconstructing yourself again; you would live the illusion of perceiving that you were yourself because you remembered that you were 'yourself' yesterday. That means we are just living the illusion that we are ourself. People who have hit their prefrontal cortex and have got amnesia, no longer perceive them selfs to be 'them self' they have simply just lost all their memories thus they have lost what to be considered as their 'soul' (them self).


After a while of understanding this, I came across a video.
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Being: You are not capable of comprehending… … or accepting…
Being: …the discoveries of my time.
Interrogator: Try me.
Being: The origin of the universe… … the nature of so called life… it is known.
Interrogator: So you know the meaning of life?
Being: Not meaning. Nature.
Interrogator: What’s the difference?
Being: Meaning is something that is ascribed.
Being: Nature is the objective reality.
Interrogator: So you know how the universe is created?
Being: Yes.
Interrogator: So you’ve seen God?
Being: We evolved past a need for superstition. The need for God and other myths.
Interrogator: Illuminate us.
Interrogator: What happens when we die?
Being: Death is a human construct.
Being: It does not exist.
Being: You will experience… … and have experienced…
Being: … every instance of so called life.
Being: You. Me. Him.
Being: We are instances of the same life.
Being: Separated by what you call death.
Interrogator: So let me get this straight.
Interrogator: There is no death… … and we all experience each other’s lives?
Being: In essence, yes.
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Whether this video was perceived as fake or true. It all made sense to me, as I've never seen this video before and the cognition of it made perfect sense to me. I only believe evidence through cognitive patterns.


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