If the human being is fortunate enough and can experience this social self or consciousness “die” or, to use the computer metaphor, temporarily go offline, then a deeper or higher form of being might appear, as it does in the yogic traditions under the Sanskrit rubric of nirvikalpa samadhi, or “absorption without thought or form.” This level of being Kevin calls “Awareness.” Such a form of being human (or being nonhuman or superhuman) does not need a body to exist, as conditioned consciousness definitely does (unless, of course, you want to call the entire quantum computer universe a “body”).
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