If you really want the answer then you need to be prepared to face some tough truths.
There is no magic. Consciousness is an illusion. It's an emergent behavior from an incredibly complex neural automata.
There is no magic. Consciousness is an illusion. It's an emergent behavior from an incredibly complex neural automata.
Unless you believe in supranatural explanations for it, yes, it does. The beliefs you mention, like a flat Earth, were/are real and also false. So in this analogy, consciousness is real, but many of the explanations for it or powers ascribed to it are false.
But from our daily experiences actually reality is an emergent property from our consciousness (or awareness).
What we do feel, smell, hear, forms into concept, meaning, experiences forms our "reality".
There might be a theoretical other "reality" or it might be a bit different many think it is now, but it doesn't make it more or less real, in the sense of actual experience it's less real.
> Would you say that these more complicated states of emotion represent higher or more complex “levels” of consciousness?
> Seth: I’m personally very skeptical of this kind of labeling, of higher and lower levels of consciousness. There is a little truth to it, of course. Unless we can agree that human beings are in some sense, more conscious than, say, an ant, we’re missing some very important things about the nature of consciousness.