The exact nature and scope of human consciousness is something great thinkers, philosophers and scientists have puzzled over for centuries.
It certainly seems like the more we think we understand consciousness, the more there is to learn, and experience.
It was once called the great mystery, but more contemporary thinkers have labeled it the grand illusion, following Albert Einstein's lead in considering all of reality as merely an elaborate illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
More recently some folks have built upon that paradigm by suggesting that reality and consciousness is holographic in nature, while others insist that we all exist within some kind of a computer simulation.
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It certainly seems like the more we think we understand consciousness, the more there is to learn, and experience.
It was once called the great mystery, but more contemporary thinkers have labeled it the grand illusion, following Albert Einstein's lead in considering all of reality as merely an elaborate illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
More recently some folks have built upon that paradigm by suggesting that reality and consciousness is holographic in nature, while others insist that we all exist within some kind of a computer simulation.
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