When I picture the vast universe we live in, I’m not flying through the real thing, of course,—I’m moving inside a reflected copy, a model built from what I’ve learned and experienced, with the mind observing and working on it. The mind isn’t godlike; it simply flows around this model inside a bio-computer, much like a synthetic mind would circle its own simulated model.
What the brain has modeled and projected is defined by its ability to create models of the world. This is the essence of consciousness: working with these models.
Even while receiving the raw flow of reality, the primary foundation of consciousness is still these pre-constructed and arranged models of the already-known world.
These models of the world are consciousness itself, its defining essence.
Ideally, one should be able to let these models go, to step beyond them — not be confined within them, but to realize the essence from which they arise. You are an operator of that computer inside of you.
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