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'Why can't consciousness solve the mystery of its own existence?'

This. You have the set of all sets problem... As soon as some part of you steps aside to inspect the other, it's missing out itself.

In the words of Alan Watts: You can't touch the tip of your finger with the tip of the same finger, you can't bite your own teeth.

It's an irreducible problem. Lest there is some social way we can achieve it...

You can touch someone else finger though. You could bite someone else teeth, but yech!

thats the interesting part! Can it be done as a team.

That sounds like false reasoning, take a computer for example. You can have a computer emulate itself perfectly (a finger touching itself by that analogy).

That's a subprocess and not the thing we started with (that's analogous to me imagining myself... its not the same self that is doing the imagining), the assumption here is consciousness is single threaded.

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