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-  What if consciousness is the 'firewall , or the 'veil' which prevents us from seeing,  "some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!"
-  What If consciousness is the 'White Whale? "How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there’s nothing beyond. But ‘tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate!"
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-   What if consciousness is an attribute of the Mind(aether)/Brain system. I laugh at guys that talk about downloading consciousness, It won't work any more than taking an image of yourself captures your soul.When I die I think that consciousness has nothing left to do and just goes away. Then my Mind will lose the confusion , confinement, and slow narrow band width  information download speed of the Mind/Brain system .Use the old Radio signal (Mind) , and the radio (Brain) metaphor. As a result of information streaming(Mind) past and around the Brain which can not be taken in fast enough because of the spatial  limitations of the Brain. The Mind is counterspacial. This information (Mind) is fractal or holographic and complete, has no locus, quantity, magnitude or any other things familiar to 'space'. It is quite literally unimaginable to conceive of reality in counter space from space. The stream(Mind) flowing and surrounding or the Mind could be a tiny point within the Brain. Remember it is counter or opposite to space so smaller is larger, more is less, and so on, and so forth. Being fractal/holographic in nature the Mind needs not deliver its full potential to the Brain . A piece delivers the entire information , however not as clear as the full hologram. Similar to the way you eventually just get a fouled image if zooming in to Google Earth with a slow PC. You Zoom in and the Image quickly becomes a few big looking Pixels. The retarded timing btween the Mind and Brain is what creates the attribute of consciousness, and the perception of time , Deja Vu , and a lot of other strange things can be explained or explained away with this far out fantasy 'what if' game, and a little Heraclitus coincidentia oppositorum,Terence McKenna,
Ken Wheeler,  and Herman Melville..  It gave me a migraine headache... “Deja Vu...Deja Vu...Deja Vu.....”
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-           I can make a good argument for nothing but the moment I am directly experiencing now , and now , and now , and etc. as the only formal reality . No past , no future is formally  real , but is more like a shadow of an attribute . A third hand fuzzy copy of a copy  . Also I think I may be the first person with an explanation of the true nature of what consciousness is .It’s just a crude metaphor right now . I have not even really thought about how to make an informal discussion about my theory yet . Perhaps it starts with this little post in an obscure group that no one even wants to join ..But anyway , consciousness , as my philosophy would describe It, is an attribute of my Mind .I would start my discussion with a metaphor : “Just as the light that is coming from your monitor’s LED screen  that you're reading this text from which is light that is an attribute of electrical counter space(Aether) , so using the already understood electrical engineering theory that defines electrical attributes , specifically light in my metaphor , I theorize the same rules apply to consciousness , and use them to draw a conclusion that  the consciousness you are reading the text with is an attribute of your  Mind / Aether (counter space)” , and  therefore things like memories , perceptions ,ontologies , or realities , are also attributes . Following the method of reductive reasoning , I come to the conclusion that consciousness is an attribute of a Mind then , and my Mind is the true self . Not my Brain no , that’s little more than a gray pile of mush sloshing around in my skull bucket .This theory , I like to think ,  would also remove much of the fear in people as well when they think of things like Alzheimers , or brain damage wiping out all of a person's memories , and experiences in Life  , because it makes one seriously doubt that they are little more than a hairless monkey . But this loss is similar to losing what is on your laptop’s hard drive , or RAM if you toss your laptop  off of the Walt Whitman Bridge because you were mad that you couldn't remember your password for Porn Hub ,or something , but your information and files are synced to the “cloud” so you have all of it still . So losing your brain memories is nothing that should worry you anymore than you would be  about losing a good view of your own shadow on a cloudy day, or something.. Do you see what I mean ?