But if so, which part of the brain, which area, which spot? Can you find it? Can you feel it? Can you locate it when you close your eyes or point to it if you took a brain scan? No. Consciousness is who we are—how we identify ourselves through experience. But consciousness is, when distilled down empirically, a strange, empty awareness, malleably undefined and inexorably connected with everything that makes and interacts with it (and doesn’t). You are not the master of your mind. You are not the servant. You are both and neither. You are your thoughts and the lineage of every bit of history
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Where is our conciousness? Is it located somewhere in our brain or are we an entity that transcends the mind and body?
