Phenomenal Consciousness

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a bird, or even just what it feels like to be you right now? That special feeling of being alive and noticing things is your consciousness. It is like a movie playing inside your head that only you can see. Even when you are quiet and nobody is watching, this movie is always going. It is the magic part of you that lets you experience the whole world.

The magic part of you that lets you experience the whole world. A rock does not know it is a rock. A tree does not know it is growing. The ocean does not know it is deep. But you know you are alive. You know you are reading. You know you are breathing. This knowing is the rarest thing in the known universe. Out of all the matter that exists — the stars, the planets, the dust, the dark — only an impossibly thin sliver of it knows that it exists. You are that sliver. Consciousness is not a thing you have. Consciousness is the thing that has you. It is the screen on which everything plays. And the screen was there before the movie started.

Phenomenal consciousness: the qualitative qualia of subjective experience that escapes physicalist reduction. Consciousness is not a thing you have. Consciousness is the thing that has you. The screen was there before the movie started.

SOUND: The ringing of absolute silence: the sound of consciousness listening to itself.

SMELL: Clean air after a lightning storm: the scent of the atmosphere resetting itself.

TASTE: The lingering sweetness of a piece of fruit: the taste of being alive without trying.

TOUCH: Wind blowing across your skin: the universe touching you and you feeling it.

SIGHT: A single candle flame in a dark room: the smallest possible light proving that seeing is not about quantity.

BODY: Closing your eyes and knowing exactly where your nose is: the body proving it has a map that does not need light.

Music: when the party's over by Billie Eilish

Music: Comfortable in My Skin by Xavier Rudd

Music: Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley

Part of Identity & The Self — CONSCIOUSNESS — Education Revelation