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The conscious mind is just as much of a conditioned phenomena as the subconscious mind. I don’t see what this has to do with no-self.

I didn’t get the impression that the insight of no-self is that consciousness is “just X”. Consciousness is there, clearly (you’re not unconscious). Just like any other conditioned thing.

Totally fair, tbh.

As Sam Harris phrases it, thoughts and senses are "merely representations" in consciousness. The self, as we perceive it, is a representation in consciousness.