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Where are you? Do you have the impression that you are behind your eyes?

What is consciousness?

Two views from a lunch discussion.

Today at lunch I had a brief and very casual discussion with two beloved family members about what consciousness is and what beings might have it. There were essentially two positions:

https://www.the-fundamentals.org/what-is-consciousness/

Causal chains determine our thoughts and actions. There is simply no room for free will to sneak in somewhere in between.

There is no “meaning of life”. There is only this moment.

What is the most important thing in the universe?

There is an answer to this question and it is the same for any of you, if you think about it long and deeply enough.

Do any of you have short lists of principles you regularly revisit?

Causal chains determine our thoughts and actions. There is simply no room for free will to sneak in somewhere in between.

Everything is just happening on its own.

You are only this moment of experience at every point in time.

What are relays about?

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