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  1. Strokes in different parts of the brain change consciousness differently, depending on the size and location of the stroke, both according to people who have suffered strokes and people who study those who have had strokes. Now if someone wants to explain that without consciousness being at least partially in the brain, he or she can try, but I don't think it will make any sense. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> are we talking about consciousness or mentation.......about the watcher or a bodily function, albeit a high level bodily function.......is consciousness merely a brain activity, thinking.......telling your hand to move....or is it that which objectifies the experience of moving the hand.
  2. but what w o r l d are you currently experiencing. and what role does choice play in the process....and what happens when you stop the world. consciousness and ego are NOT the same thing. Ego is just another experience..... where is consciousness located? It's not in your brain, or your body, both of which are objectified by consciousness.
  3. The question is can consciousness be dissolved????? are we talking about our perception of the "real" world, maya, what castenada called the tonal, which certainly can be dissolved ...or atman/watcher.............which cannot. If we enter what elliot called the still point in moving time, absorptive meditation, dissolution vanishes as a possibility.
  4. Hi, I just logged on to this site and joined. Read your post. Consciousness is not found in your body or your mind. It is neither of those things, and since it is the thing which objectifies reality, it cannot be objectified. You can't objectify the objectifier. While I still have lots of questions and problems and reservations, I believe that the Vedic tradition comes closest to an accurate description of consciousness, ....where it is defined as Atman, the witness/soul/watcher which can be experienced as a result of meditative absorption. In the Chandgoya Upanisad the apprentice asks the teacher "am I this, am I that, am I something, am I nothing, what am I?" and the teacher responds "you are not this, you are not that, you are not something, you are not nothing." Neti Neti...... In more modern terms, Castenada in his long discourse concerning the shamanistic Nagual and Tonal makes the same point. You must stop the world and totally quell the internal dialogue (e.g. enter meditative absorption). Once you do this you can experience pure intent which is the ground of being and consciousness, with the absolute absence of time, past, present or future. (much easier said than done). So, consciousness is where we witness and explore our lives and intent is how we remake the world every hour and minute we are alive. And the answer does not depend on chemestry, or biology, or any form of measurement.
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